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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Those that merely talk and never think,
That live in the wild anarchy of drink.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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War is a continuation of policy by other means. It is not merely a political act but a real political instrument.
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War Is Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means
We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means.On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 24, in the Princeton University Pre
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