Quotes 461 till 480 of 561.
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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There is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
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There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
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This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.
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