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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many…
— William Shakespeare
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not…
— William Hazlitt
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as…
— William Shakespeare
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Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's…
— Neal Shusterman
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Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of…
— Alan Watts
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This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?
— Neal Shusterman
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Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl. "Oh right. How could I forget that she…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning …
— A. E. Housman
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