Quotes 221 till 240 of 426.
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
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On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
A Distant Mirror -
Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was - nobody any longer wanted to be that.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
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One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
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Only dead people need loud music.
The Temple of My Familiar (1989) -
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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