Quotes 1241 till 1257 of 1257.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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Peace: a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
The Devil's Dictionary -
The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet - two clarionets.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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