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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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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
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Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can…
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The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle…
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied…
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or…
— Plato
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It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
— Bulent Ecevit
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If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And…
— Marie de France
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his…
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