Quotes 961 till 980 of 1730.
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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
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Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
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Pain with the thousand teeth.
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Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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Patch grief with proverbs.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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