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• One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

  ― Evelyn Waugh
  British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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• One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

  ― Horace
  Roman poet
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• One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

  ― Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

  ― Ashley Montagu
  British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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• One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

  ― James T. Mccay
  American author
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• One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

  ― William Ellery Channing
  American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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• One good deed, dying
  slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.

  Source: The Winter's Tale

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

  ― Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
  

  ― Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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• One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.

  Source: Trenchtown Rock

  ― Bob Marley
  Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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• One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

  ― Ben Affleck
  American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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• One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

  ― Lorrie Moore
  American writer (1957 - )
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• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  ― Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

  ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

  ― Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.

  Source: Death in the Clouds (1935) ch. 25

  ― Agatha Christie
  British writer (1890 - 1976)
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• One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

  ― Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  ― Ian Mcewan
  English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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• One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

  ― Kofi Annan
  Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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• One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

  ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• schoolmaster
• occasionally
• slaughters
• slaughtered
• generations
• immortality

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