Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 4584.
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of `culture'.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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It is better to receive than to do injury.
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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