Own Account Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before…
— Sun Tzu
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of…
— Unknown Author
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There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or…
— H. L. Mencken
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Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to…
— E. M. Forster
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems…
— John Dewey
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And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He had to think he was Michael Wayland’s son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Own Account Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Own Account Quotes as follows: