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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.
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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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