Quotes 41 till 60 of 127.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
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I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
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I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
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It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15 -
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
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Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.
Pensees (1669) -
Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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