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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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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
— Max Beerbohm
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
— Aesop
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows…
— Willa Cather
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to…
— Watchman Nee
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Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them.…
— Sun Tzu
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…
— Janet Morris
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
— Thomas Carlyle
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