Quotes with truth-and-a-half

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  • William Shakespeare He that wants money, means and content is without three good friends.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Secker He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Horace He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Robertson Davies He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Bob Crosby He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.
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  • Arthur Miller He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Mario Puzo He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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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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