"And this must be the prime oflife .……" — Philip Larkin

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• There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — Lord Acton
• The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith… — Bruce Barton
• Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have… — Lewis Howard Latimer
• Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for… — Aristotle
• When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs… — Ayn Rand
• [Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives… — Stephen L. Richards
• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets… — James Bryant Conant
• Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss… — Charles Spurgeon
• All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious… — James Russell Lowell
• The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is… — Jean de la Bruyere
• The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. — Clarence Darrow
• The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon

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