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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that…
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We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously.…
— Samuel Johnson
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Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
— Niklas Luhmann
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The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
— Tacitus
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Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest…
— Rose Kennedy
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak,…
— Herman Melville
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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything.…
— Oscar Wilde
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Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the…
— Susan Glaspell
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