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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
— Henry James
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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
— Horace
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination…
— Jane Austen
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his…
— Oscar Wilde
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Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of…
— Isabella Beeton
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To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up…
— Louis L'Amour
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The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.
— Naomi Klein
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We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.
— Richard S. Ewell
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