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A critic knows more than the author he criticises, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
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A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p.54 -
A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
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A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
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A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
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