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- I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
- I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the…
- The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and…
- You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What…
- What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
- It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what…
- I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to…
- ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably…
- "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove…
- I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that…
- I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes,…
- It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying…
- It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
- My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
- Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
- Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to…
- They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and…
- There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick…
- She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A…
- It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it;…
- So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
- Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect…
- a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
- I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to…
- We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster