Quotes 101 till 120 of 393.
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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.
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Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
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He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Historian - an unsuccessful novelist.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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History is the propaganda of the victors.
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 57 -
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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