Quotes 181 till 200 of 387.
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It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
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It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
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Know than this truth (enough for man to know): I virtue alone is happinea below.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, and censure freely who have written well.
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Let those teach others who themselves excel; I and censure freely, who have written well.
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Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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