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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that…
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
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This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest.…
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When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every…
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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults…
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A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
— William Shakespeare
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When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with the dog's rubber mouse, it only confuses the puppy and…
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
— Plutarch
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi…
— John Dryden
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those…
— Herman Melville
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
— Denis Diderot
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Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
— Mike Binder
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O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of…
— E E Cummings
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