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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
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There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
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