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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose…
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which…
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in…
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but…
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
— Bill Walsh
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The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
— Michel de Certeau
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If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,…
— Jonathan Swift
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
— Johannes Kepler
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
— Isaac Marion
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I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave…
— Isaac Marion
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I never thought I'd have such a luxurious life. A healthy husband ... beautiful little girl... Jacuzzi and beer and fruitbowl and…
— Miki Gorman
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