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Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
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Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.
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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
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Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
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Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.
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Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear.
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Of all the works of man I like best
Those which have been used.
The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
The knives and forks whose wooden handles
Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
Seemed to me the noblest.Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
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