Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 4539.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
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I have always laid it down as a maxim - and found it justified by experience - that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex - but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Lothair (1870) ch. 30 -
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
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I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995) -
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
3 december 1964 -
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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