Quotes 281 till 300 of 387.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.
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The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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