Quotes with often-told

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  • Aesop Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Aesop Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Edward Hoagland Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • William R. Alger Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Blaise Pascal Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carson Daly Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Edwin H. Stuart Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
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  • Charles Dickens Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henry Fielding Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Money often costs too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Candice Millard More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Marva Collins Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Archer J. P. Martin Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bradley Joseph Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.
    On composing Interview with Bradley Joseph, The Spiritual Signi
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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