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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which…
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly…
— Hannah Arendt
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
— Abigail Adams
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
— Henry Adams
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
— Buffalo Bill
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
— Warren Buffett
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
— John Burroughs
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
— Albert Camus
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