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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content to seem what you really are.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he…
— Francis Bacon
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
— John Fowles
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
— Aesop
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True contentment comes with empathy.
— Tim Finn
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in…
— K D Lang
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
— Aaron Allston
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When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need.
— Max Lucado
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