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Robert Graves has 79 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen…
— Rick Pitino
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When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the…
— Barack Obama
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It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial…
— Tom Baker
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If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him…
— Dwight L. Moody
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For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his…
— Joseph Hall
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The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store…
— Jack Handey
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I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents…
— Tommy Douglas
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I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents…
— Tommy Douglas
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and…
— George Eliot
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