Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 4330.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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It is better to receive than to do injury.
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1
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