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The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
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The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
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The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
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