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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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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
— Homer
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That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress…
— Hugh Nibley
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Color deceives continuously.
— Josef Albers
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to…
— Paul of the Cross
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
— Gorgias
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
— Plato
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
— Plato
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live…
— John Edward
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for…
— Alma Gluck
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