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- Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
- Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this…
- Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
- The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may…
- It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally…
- We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.
- When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
- Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than…
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- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
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- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage