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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
― Lew Wallace
American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905) -
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm - not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
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