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Diogenes: Protagoras asserted that...

Diogenes: Protagoras asserted that...

Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each...

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Hubert H Humphrey: I learned more...

Hubert H Humphrey: I learned more...

I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at...

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Ninon de Lenclos: We should take...

Ninon de Lenclos: We should take...

We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by...

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Its proper use...

Its proper use...

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use...

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Men hate more...

Men hate more...

Men hate more steadily than they love.

Source: Quoted in: Boswell's Life of Samuel...

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Painting consumes labour...

Painting consumes labour...

Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble...

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No man will...

No man will...

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail,...

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Questioning is not...

Questioning is not...

Questioning is not the mode of the conversation among gentlemen.

Source: Quoted in:...

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Social movements are...

Social movements are...

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is...

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We forge gradually...

We forge gradually...

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world --introspection. We discover that humanity may...

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When my kids...

When my kids...

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb...

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When a fellow...

When a fellow...

When a fellow says It ain't the money but the principle of the thing, -- it's the money.

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It's pretty hard...

It's pretty hard...

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Source: In Webster's...

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Very often the...

Very often the...

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.

Source:
-- Kin Hubbard, (Sep...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable...

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There's no secret...

There's no secret...

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about...

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BATH, n. A...

BATH, n. A...

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been...

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AUSTRALIA, n. A...

AUSTRALIA, n. A...

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably...

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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously...

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously...

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity...

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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly...

CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly...

CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to...

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