Quotes 521 till 540 of 628.
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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69 -
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity,
Which join'd with Time and Industry,
Had carry'd Life's Conveniences,
It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease,
To such a Height, the very Poor
Liv'd better than the Rich before.The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 197, p. 11 -
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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To bring aid to everyone in need far surpasses the powers and advantage of a private person.... So the case of the poor falls upon society as a whole.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
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Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
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