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  • Sophocles It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Junius It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Adam Clarke It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Albert J. Nock It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Lord George Byron It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Baruch Spinoza It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo It is well enough to say that we shall be consistent, but consistent with what?... The origins of the rule? The course and tendency of development? With logic or philosophy? With the fundamental conceptions of jurisprudence? All these loyalties are possible. All have sometimes prevailed.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Augustus Hare It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Hazlitt It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Lord Henry P. Brougham It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
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  • John Andrew Holmes It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Horace Mann It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Michelangelo It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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