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  • Oscar Wilde It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Bryson It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Horace It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Mark Twain It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
    The Remarkable Rocket (1888)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barnett Newman It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Anne Brontë It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • W. H. Auden It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Santayana It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • David Hume It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • A. J. Liebling It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Alice James It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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