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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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