Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 2725.
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But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
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Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Source: Thomas Jefferson 49 -
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
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