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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Ovid A short absence is the safest.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Margaret Drabble Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Hippocrates If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Titus Livy In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Sydney Smith It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Edward Coke Law is the safest helmet.
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Lord Melbourne My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bob Ney The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Michelangelo The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
    Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • C. S. Lewis The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Kin Hubbard The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Samuel Butler When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Thomas Fuller He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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