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A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1895) -
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
Source: Politics and the English Language (1945) -
A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980) -
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
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A moral, sensible, and wellbred man, I will not affront me, and no other can.
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A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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