Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished. — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has,… — Josef Muller-Brockmann Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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