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- The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.…
- I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than…
- I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when…
- It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .…
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- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
- Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker
- It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. — Russell Baker