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A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2013) 1117 -
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Source: Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V
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