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  • Samuel Butler A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • David Ogilvy A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Ben Shapiro A West Virginia 10 is a California 4. Or at least that's what legend tells us: The Legend of Dr. Feelgood. Plastic surgery has a permanent home here, which is why Nancy Pelosi loves our Botoxed beaches. Beverly Hills looks like a moving Madame Tussauds.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Nancy Reagan A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Julie Burchill A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • George Eliot A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Marcel Proust A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Freya Stark Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Joe Paterno Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • George W. Crane Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
    George W. Crane
    American psychologist and physician
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
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  • Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Carole Bouquet Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Glenda Jackson Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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