Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1785.
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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
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The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
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The ''good old times'' - all times when old are good.
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
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The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
Source: Man and Superman (1903) -
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
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