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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country! -
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
Source: Lord of the Silver Bow (2005) -
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Original:Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer."
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
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