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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously…
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold…
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,…
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her…
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for…
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her…
— Abigail Adams
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
— Georges Bernanos
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
— Winston Churchill
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool…
— Unknown Author
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We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
— Plutarch
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
— Alexander Pope
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It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our…
— Pierre Curie
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Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
— Joan Blades
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A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in…
— Jack Kerouac
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine…
— Wallace Stevens
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