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- A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler
- Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion,… — Kenneth E. Boulding
- A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings… — Mark Twain
- Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects… — John Ruskin
- A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. — Karl Kraus
- This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of… — Joseph Lancaster
- For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and… — Tycho Brahe