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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the… — Thomas Adams
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just.… — Cesar Chavez
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. — Benjamin Disraeli
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease. — Henry James
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is… — H. L. Mencken
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets… — Andre Gide
Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught. — Brooks Atkinson
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. — Daniel Defoe
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. — Charles Caleb Colton
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready… — Charles Lamb
All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels. — Francois Fenelon
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy… — N. T. Wright
He's so fat, he can be his own running mate. — Johnny Carson
I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as… — Malcolm X
And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best… — Abraham Lincoln
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result. — Abraham Lincoln
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions,… — George Washington
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,… — George Washington
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. — William Hazlitt
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under… — Henri Matisse
I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest… — Sterling W Sill

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