Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1835.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well: that is, to understand.Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2. -
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
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Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Prosperity and is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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Public instruction should be the first object of government.
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Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
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