Quotes 6361 till 6380 of 6479.
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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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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
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Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Dramatist: One who adapts plays from the French.
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Original:Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
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Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
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