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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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Finally here, Imma star with the timing. My swagger is chill and my flow is reclining.
— Drake
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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did…
— William Hazlitt
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to…
— Edward Abbey
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a…
— Siri Hustvedt
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
— Edward T. Hall
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In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can…
— John Churton Collins
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If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Then when you have finished the prayer, remember Allah standing and sitting and reclining; but when you are secure (from danger) keep…
— Quran
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the…
— Voltaire
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Finally here, I'm a star with the timing, my swagga is chill, and my flow is reclining.
— Drake
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All kids are trouble, Edith. And I don't wanna spend my reclining years trying to raise another one.
— Archie Bunker
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