Serviceable Quotes by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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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
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• A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. — Karl Kraus
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• For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and… — Tycho Brahe
• When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
• Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable… — Oliver Goldsmith
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• A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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