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- To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
- Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of…
- All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is…
- To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or…
- That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way…
- Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.
- There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties,…
- The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort.…
- Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
- Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
- In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance…
- Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore…
- Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace…
- Human nature is the same in all professions.
- In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavor to wear as much of the appearance…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle