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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
On War (1832) -
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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