"Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor." — Charles Churchill
"Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor."
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Charles Churchill
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51 Quotes by Charles Churchill
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
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Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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No tribute is laid on castles in the air.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
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Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies,…
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Genius is of no country.
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The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the…
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded…
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More Dullness Quotes
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary…
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one…
— William James
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that…
— George Santayana
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of…
— Francis Bacon
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The devil's name is dullness.
— Robert E. Lee
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an…
— George Eliot
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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both…
— William Butler Yeats
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The…
— Howard Zinn
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
— Edith Sitwell
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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from…
— Burl Ives
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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