Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 2717.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln -
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
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The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
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The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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