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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that…
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.…
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance…
— Andre Breton
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
— Denis Diderot
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Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
— Seneca the Younger
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Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made…
— Stephen Baker
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From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of…
— John Brown
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,…
— Alexander Pope
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