Quotes 3281 till 3300 of 5500.
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Nothing ages a man like living always with the same woman.
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Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
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Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Headlong hall (1816) -
Nothing can come out of the artist that is not in the man.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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