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  • There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
  • Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
  • Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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  • William Penn A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • C. S. Forester A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • George Eliot In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Emile Durkheim It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Winter Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.
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  • Barbara Corcoran My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Tacitus Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Eric Hoffer Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Capper The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Robert J. Ringer There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
    Robert J. Ringer
    American writer
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francis Bacon Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ann Macbeth Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Demosthenes What we wish, that we readily believe.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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