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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
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There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
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There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) -
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
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