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I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
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I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
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I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
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If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
Letter to Robert Hooke, 15 febr. 1676 -
If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
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If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
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If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
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In science we resemble children collecting a few pebbles at the beach of knowledge, while the wide ocean of the unknown unfolds itself in front of us.
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