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If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.
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If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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