Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 10005.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
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A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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