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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Wuthering Heights (1847) -
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism, -
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
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A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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