Quotes 161 till 180 of 1730.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
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A peace above all earhtly dignities: A still and quiet conscience.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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