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A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
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In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Othello 1, 3
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