Quotes 101 till 120 of 159.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
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One enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
Journal to Stella (30 June 1711) -
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
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Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
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Rigondeaux was Cuba's answer to Bobby Fischer who transformed into a kind of Lee Harvey Oswald traitorous creature in that society. He escaped on a smuggler's boat and toppled one of the best fighters in the world in 2013 with his obliteration of Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall. He made it look so easy, his career has never recovered.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
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Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
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Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.
(2012) -
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 179
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