Quotes 261 till 280 of 479.
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
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Out upon it, I have lov'd three whole days together, and am like to love three more if it proves fair weather.
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Pain with the thousand teeth.
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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
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Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
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