Quotes with obliged

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  • John Wanamaker People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • W. H. Auden Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Charles Lamb The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Mark Twain Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Machiavelli War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Mark Twain Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Toni Morrison You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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