Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 1240.
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We talk about fate as if it were something visited upon us; we forget that we create our fate every day we live.
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We were born to succeed, not to fail.
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Wealth - Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 120 -
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]
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