Quotes 4241 till 4260 of 4330.
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
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A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
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An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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