Quotes 201 till 220 of 607.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
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