Quotes 81 till 100 of 191.
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
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Knaves generally overreach themselves by imputing their own designs to others.
Old Curiosity Shop (1841) -
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Men of great abilities are generally of a large and vigorous animal nature.
The Statesman (1886) 229 -
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.
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Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.
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Never lay others under an obligation; it generally obliges them to detest you.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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