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  • Henry Clay Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
    Henry Clay
    American lawyer, planter, and statesman (1777 - 1852)
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  • John S. Bonnell Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • Lin Yü-tang Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Bela Lugosi Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Marilyn Ferguson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Anatole France Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Butch Trucks Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Aristotle Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Walter Benjamin Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Anatole France Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Woody Allen Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Euripides Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
    A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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