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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Owen Meredith There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
    Owen Meredith
    British writer, critic and politician (ps. of Edward Bulwer-Lytton) (1802 - 1873)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Joseph Conrad There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barbra Streisand There is nothing more important in life than love.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Dickens There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Stuart Mill There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Euripides There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Victor Hugo There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • George Eliot There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Sand There is only one happiness in life - to love and to be loved.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Christopher Morley There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Leo Tolstoy There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Alan Paton There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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