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• Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby
• What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and… — Robert Goolrick
• In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper
• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a… — Octave Mirbeau
• Virtue is too often merely local. — Samuel Johnson
• I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad
• The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a… — Chogyam Trungpa
• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after… — C. D. Broad
• To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He… — Ronald Fisher
• Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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