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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Gerda Lerner Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
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  • William Shakespeare Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say: Good night, till it be morrow.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • William Shakespeare Parting is such sweet sorrow.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Fuller Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Elias Canetti There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Epicurus There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Napoleon Hill There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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