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G C Lichtenberg: Nowadays three witty...

G C Lichtenberg: Nowadays three witty...

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Source: Aphorisms,...

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Martin H Fischer: When there is...

Martin H Fischer: When there is...

When there is no explanation, they give it a name, which immediately explains everything.

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Benjamin Franklin: None preaches better...

Benjamin Franklin: None preaches better...

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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Bernard Baruch: Vote for the...

Bernard Baruch: Vote for the...

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come down, O...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come down, O...

Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:
What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Hold thou the good: define it well:
For fear divine philosophy
Should push beyond her mark and be
Procuress...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Half light, half...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Half light, half...

Half light, half shade,
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.


Source: The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am a...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am a...

I am a part of all I have met.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lead and I...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lead and I...

Lead and I follow.

Source: Idylls of the King, `Gareth and Lynette', 726
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To-night the winds...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To-night the winds...

To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirled away,
The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou madest Death:...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou madest Death:...

Thou madest Death: and lo, thy foot
Is on the skull which thou hast made.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To reverence the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To reverence the...

To reverence the King, as if he were
Their conscience, and their conscience as their King,
To break the heathen...

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Alexander Pope: A man should...

Alexander Pope: A man should...

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser...

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Alexander Pope: Destroy his fib...

Alexander Pope: Destroy his fib...

Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain,
The creature's at his dirty work again.


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Alexander Pope: Did some more...

Alexander Pope: Did some more...

Did some more sober critic come abroad?
If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.


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Alexander Pope: For virtue's self...

Alexander Pope: For virtue's self...

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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Alexander Pope: Do good by...

Alexander Pope: Do good by...

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Source: Epilogue to the Satires,...

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Alexander Pope: Let standard-authors, thus,...

Alexander Pope: Let standard-authors, thus,...

Let standard-authors, thus, like trophies borne,
Appear more glorious as more hacked and...

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Alexander Pope: In quibbles angel...

Alexander Pope: In quibbles angel...

In quibbles angel and archangel join,
And God the Father turns a school divine.


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Alexander Pope: Fondly we think...

Alexander Pope: Fondly we think...

Fondly we think we honour merit then,
When we but praise ourselves in other men.


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