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- All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed… — Charles Dickens
- How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost… — Henry Wotton
- Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one… — Julius Sterling Morton
- For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
- For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials… — Vincent Bugliosi
- If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy. — Thomas Love Peacock
- It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume
- Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong… — Halldór Laxness
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide… — Samuel Johnson
- Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself?… — Virginia Woolf
- Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's… — Eleanor Roosevelt