Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 4584.
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I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
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I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of fiends, and empty purse.
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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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