Quotes 5781 till 5800 of 5906.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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Beggar: One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
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Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
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Christian: One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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