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- Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves…
- The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
- Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.
- There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
- It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for…
- You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
- Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
- There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental…
- By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved…
- A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
- Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as…
- My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
- The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you…
- A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable…
- Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book…
- The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I…
- An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.
- Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.…
- That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of…
- The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.
- Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.
- By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each…
- From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure…
- The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try…
- I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that…
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