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All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Original:Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
Animal Dreams -
But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
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I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
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Men will not always die quietly.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) -
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2017) 893 -
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ''ethic.''
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So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775) -
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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