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Marcus Tullius Cicero: I prefer tongue-tied...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: I prefer tongue-tied...

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Source: De Oratore, bk. 3,...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: In everything truth...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: In everything truth...

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: He cannot be...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: He cannot be...

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Every stage of...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Every stage of...

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is the...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is the...

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Freedom suppressed and...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Freedom suppressed and...

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Nothing is more...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences...

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Too much sensibility...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Too much sensibility...

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

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Otto von Bismarck: Politics is not...

Otto von Bismarck: Politics is not...

Politics is not an exact science.

Source: Speech, Prussian Chamber, 18 Dec...

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Winston Churchill: Broadly speaking, human...

Winston Churchill: Broadly speaking, human...

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into 3 classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to...

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Winston Churchill: Anyone can rat,...

Winston Churchill: Anyone can rat,...

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Source: In...

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Christopher Morley: There is no...

Christopher Morley: There is no...

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the...

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Mark Twain: There are only...

Mark Twain: There are only...

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe. . . the sun in the heavens and the...

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Milan Kundera: Without the meditative...

Milan Kundera: Without the meditative...

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, ahistorical accidents, soon...

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Margaret Atwood: Another belief of...

Margaret Atwood: Another belief of...

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in...

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George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Source: Adam Bede.
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Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

We didn't find that it [London] come up to its likeness in the red bills - it is there drawd too...

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Charles Dickens: I am always...

Charles Dickens: I am always...

I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the...

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Charles Dickens: Here's richness!...

Charles Dickens: Here's richness!...

Here's richness!

Source: (Mr Squeers) Nicholas Nickleby, Ch.5
-- Charles...

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Charles Dickens: O Mrs Higden,...

Charles Dickens: O Mrs Higden,...

O Mrs Higden, Mrs Higden, you was a woman and a mother, and a mangler in a million...

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