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High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own… — Samuel Johnson
If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen? — Richard Henry Lee
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool. — Miguel de Cervantes
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. — Thomas Browne
One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life… — Seneca the Younger
...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can… — Cesar Chavez
I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers… — Cesar Chavez
Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right… — Cesar Chavez
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts,… — Cesar Chavez
We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together. — Cesar Chavez
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the… — Anna Akhmatova
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. — Ernest Renan
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take. — Unknown Author
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer… — Joseph Conrad
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what… — John Selden
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt
If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found. — George Carlin
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large… — Henry Ward Beecher
When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like,… — Dane Cook
You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as… — Lewis Black
People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people… — Louis C. K.
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate. — Marion Barry
While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred… — Martial
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll… — Mark Twain

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