Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 2849.
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
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Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
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Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
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Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
On War (1832) -
Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
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Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ''Are your ready?''
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.
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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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