Quotes with three-and-twentieth

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  • Thomas B. Macaulay He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Iris Murdoch He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ''when!''
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • H.G. Wells He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Bunyan He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Albert Einstein He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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  • Thomas Carlyle He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Szasz He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Victor Hugo He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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