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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long. — Luc de Clapiers
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… — E. M. Forster
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. — George Bernard Shaw
I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you… — Ennio Morricone
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human… — Mignon McLaughlin
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. — Mignon McLaughlin
If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength… — John Kendrick Bangs
Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince… — Paddy Johnson
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be… — Melissa Bank
For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and… — James Fallows
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. — Bertrand Russell
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the… — Timothy Keller
One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant. — Greg Gilbert
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… — Wendell Berry
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have… — Abraham Lincoln
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut… — Stephen Jay Gould
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. — John Cheever
The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject. — Walter Raleigh
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. — Walt Whitman
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the… — John Fowles
Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience. — Samuel Beckett
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism… — Irving Babbitt

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