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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
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The worst is not. So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
Source: King Lear IV, 1 -
The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
Source: Interview from Programmers at Work -
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
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