Quotes with number-one

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Anatole France Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Robert Browning Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Sir John A. Macdonald Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
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  • David Letterman New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Charles Lamb Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Ben Folds Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Bertrand Russell Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Antonia Fraser Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Archibald Wavell No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
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  • Enoch Powell No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Anatole France No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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