Quotes 241 till 260 of 315.
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The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
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The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
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Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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There is no secret so close as between a rider and his horse.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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There is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
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There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iron Man.' There's a whole through-line plot about his relationship with Pepper, and everybody loves it.
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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn epigraph -
They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759) -
This Englishwoman is so refined, she has no bosom and no behind.
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This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
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