Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 4622.
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
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It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ''mature'' critics often are.
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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
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It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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