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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity,…
— Antoine Rivarol
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no…
— P T Barnum
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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.
— Winston Churchill
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He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly
— Steven Erikson
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
— E. W. Howe
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