Quotes 21 till 40 of 228.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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