Quotes 3921 till 3940 of 10005.
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It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
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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.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
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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.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
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It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII -
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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.
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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.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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