Quotes 1481 till 1499 of 1499.
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An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
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Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
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History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
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My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.
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Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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