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On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be… — Thomas Jefferson
I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. — Rube Goldberg
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger. — Dalai Lama
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except… — Aristotle
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only… — Ambrose Bierce
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. — Mignon McLaughlin
You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize… — Dee Hock
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an… — Henry James
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;… — Samuel Johnson
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except… — Ernest Howard Crosby
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off. — Elizabeth Taylor
Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners. — Alan Cooper
Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far… — David Halberstam
No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them. — Robert Zemeckis
A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the… — Anna Garlin Spencer
Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist.… — Jeffrey Wright
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances. — Mignon McLaughlin
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in… — Simone Weil
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858,… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith,… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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