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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can resist everything except temptation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sir Richard Steele I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Mark Twain I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert E. Lee I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Kruger I have no complaints, except for the world.
    Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I have nothing to declare except my genius.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Voltaire I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Lord George Byron I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • David Livingstone I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Daniel O'Connell I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
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  • Beryl Bainbridge I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Alan Bennett I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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