Quotes 61 till 80 of 393.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
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Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 74 -
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
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Every bachelor is a hero to some married woman.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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