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  • Susan Scott The truth will set you free - but first it may thoroughly irritate you.
    Susan Scott
    American self-help writer
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  • William Hazlitt There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • St. Theresa of Lisieux True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robertson Wherever men think clearly, and are thoroughly interested, they express themselves with perspicuity and force.
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Oscar Wilde You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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