Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 4532.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
Source: Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146. -
If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
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If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
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If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
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