Quotes 181 till 200 of 263.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.
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The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.
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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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