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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous…
— William Hazlitt
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A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
— C.S. Lewis
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
— Jean Cocteau
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What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions…
— Claud Cockburn
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Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both…
— Louis Kronenberger
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
— George Santayana
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The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for.…
— Hilari Bell
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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
— George Eliot
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Smarmy little prig,” Will snarled, leaning father forward, as if he longed to reach through the magical portal and strangle Gabriel. “When…
— Cassandra Clare
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The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
— N. T. Wright
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is…
— Woodrow Wilson
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