Quotes with would-be

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  • Jean de la Bruyère I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Anne Bronte I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Booker T. Washington I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Sophocles I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Alben W. Barkley I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
    Alben W. Barkley
    American lawyer and politician (1877 - 1956)
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  • Elbert Hubbard I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Plautus I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Jack London I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Julius Caesar I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Bobby Fischer I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
    (1999)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Aeschylus I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Alexander Smith I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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