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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
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There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) -
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
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There is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
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