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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
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The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
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The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.
Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Source: Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014) -
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.
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There are few more melancholy spectacles than the litter of a room after the last guest has said 'goodbye'.
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There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
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There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
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