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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and…
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.…
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…
— Auguste Comte
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There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
— William Cowper
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He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read…
— James Boswell
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Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
— F. Sionil Jose
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Hey your so smart well once you tell the definiton of braggadocio and...Acclaim Accolade Adamant Advocate Affable Alienate Altruistic Ambiguous Amity Anarchy…
— MrAwesome
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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is…
— Bernard Cornwell
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