Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 1730.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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A plague of sighing and grie blows a man up like a bladder.
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A politician is one that would circumvent God.
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A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
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Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.
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All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool - motley's the only wear.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
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