Quotes 181 till 200 of 2595.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
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A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Atonement (2001) -
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
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