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Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for… — Marcel Proust
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are… — Dorothy L. Sayers
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. — W. Somerset Maugham
I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And… — P.G. Wodehouse
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. — Marcus Aurelius
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. — Alberto Manguel
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. — Dalai Lama
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. — Oscar Wilde
The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of… — Yann Martel
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men… — Thomas Hobbes
But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account." "Really?" "It did… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a… — Shirley Jackson
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,… — Bertrand Russell
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. — Jane Austen
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling
Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I… — Winston Groom
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no… — Erich Maria Remarque
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events… — Bertrand Russell

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