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  • William Hazlitt Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
    Sketches and Essays, On Nicknames
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Molière Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Bertrand Russell Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Mark Twain Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Ruskin Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cowley Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • John Gay Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Joseph Cook Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
    Joseph Cook
    6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914 (1860 - 1947)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Samuel Johnson Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Louis Aragon Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Olson Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
    His Last Bow (1917)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • John Foster Dulles Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Laurence Sterne Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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