Dear Sir Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
— Bertrand Russell
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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
— Samuel Johnson
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Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as…
— Stephen Foster
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
— William Cowper
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for…
— Herman Melville
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Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
— Raoul Dufy
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"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a…
— Charles Dickens
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After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I…
— Arturo Toscanini
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Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no denial; come, we…
— Lewis Carroll
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
— Peter O'Toole
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!†“Mine is erratic,†he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.
— Georgette Heyer
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Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted…
— Pablo Neruda
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There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such…
— Franz Kafka
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Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that err less. Therefore,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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