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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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