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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
The Great Gatsby Ch. 1 -
Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.
Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1] -
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
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Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
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Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
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Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme. -
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
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Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
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Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
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