Quotes 3101 till 3120 of 5418.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Original:Le bon sense est la chose du monde la mieux partagée, car chacun pense en être bien pourvu.
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.
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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
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Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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