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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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It is a sign of mediocrity to have settled opinions on unsettled subjects.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
It is a sin to be poor.
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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It is by surprises that experience teaches all she deigns to teach us.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (1823) XXXIII -
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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It is not well to make great changes in old age.
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It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.
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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
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