Quotes 441 till 460 of 479.
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When I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
Source: The Economist (1983) Vol. 287, p. 19 -
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
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With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
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