Quotes 3701 till 3720 of 10786.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
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If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
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If a place needs helicopters, it's probably not worth visiting.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
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If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
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If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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