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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. — Augustus William Hare
Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar. — Rod Stewart
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French,… — Henry Walter Bates
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. — Evelyn Waugh
Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael. — Thomas Keneally
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family… — John Hodgman
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had… — Avicenna
I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for… — Dick Cavett
It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made. — Stanley Kubrick
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa
No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own. — Mikhail Bulgakov
When people asked Socrates, â€˜What is wisdom?â€™ he always gave the same answer: â€˜I donâ€™t knowâ€™. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of… — Jim Rohn
As for a limit to oneâ€™s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead… — Alexander the Great
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can… — Ruby Wax
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one… — Rose Tremain
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason... — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. — Auguste Comte
Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news… — Megyn Kelly
Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. — John Galt

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