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- Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry
- It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of… — Alexander Hamilton
- I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to… — Edward Weston
- Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always… — Unknown Author
- The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark. — Unknown Author
- Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses… — William Jennings Bryan
- Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one… — H. L. Mencken
- It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last. — Elbert Hubbard
- Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to… — H. L. Mencken
- The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the… — Albert J. Nock
- When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon