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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
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A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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A translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano.
The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
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