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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
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The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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There is more in a common bubble than those who have only played with them generally imagine.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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