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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There are lots of risks, but without risks, there's no reward. I think the reward is bigger than the risk.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.
Jason Pontin (November 28, 2006). The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup). MIT Technology Review. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
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