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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. — Robert Morley
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. — Christopher Morley
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generTo be rich nowadays merely means to… — Raoul Vaneigem
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what… — George Woodcock
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key… — John Tuley
The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy.… — Teresa Stover
Do not think of how big the universe is, it will merely hurt your head. — Buddha
Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out… — Henry Louis Mencken
We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards — William Shakespeare
The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous. — Mark Twain
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin — Salvador De Madariaga
Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction — Samuel Johnson
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected. — Oscar Wilde
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice — Mark Twain
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic.… — Felix Adler
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence,… — Thomas Hobbes
They say 'practice makes perfect.' Of course, it doesn't. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection. — Henry Longhurst
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them — Aldous Huxley
Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities — Oscar Wilde

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