"Men are too unstable to be just; they……" — Edward Dahlberg
"Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised."
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57 Quotes by Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg has 57 quotes on this site.
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
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Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against…
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either…
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It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before…
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce…
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I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
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