"To me no profitable speech sounds ill." — Sophocles

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• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
• A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. — Jane Austen
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
• As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
• For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally. — Alec Baldwin
• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
• Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how… — Albert Bandura
• I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference. — Roseanne Barr
• There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that… — James Truslow Adams
• No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at… — Joe Barton
• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never… — Charles Baudelaire
• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. — Henry Ward Beecher

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