Quotes 2921 till 2940 of 5908.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Original:Le bon sense est la chose du monde la mieux partagée, car chacun pense en être bien pourvu.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
Memoirs (1991) -
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one, Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun Walks with level step the spray, Through his vestibule of Day.
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