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A man who...

A man who...

A man who is good enough to go to heaven, is good enough to be a clergyman.

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Example is always...

Example is always...

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

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The desire to...

The desire to...

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...

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My master had...

My master had...

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

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If you're going...

If you're going...

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that...

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And there was...

And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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Very few people...

Very few people...

Very few people seem to admit to coming from my family's class, which I suppose could be described as Upper Working....

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Haste maketh waste....

Haste maketh waste....

Haste maketh waste.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex...

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If you don't...

If you don't...

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em,...

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In the face...

In the face...

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

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As a general...

As a general...

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

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Tears are sometimes...

Tears are sometimes...

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely...

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Artists to my...

Artists to my...

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the...

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One loses many...

One loses many...

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Anyone who has...

Anyone who has...

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers...

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Given the cultural...

Given the cultural...

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to...

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There is the...

There is the...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of...

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It is no...

It is no...

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.

Source: In The...

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A Whig is...

A Whig is...

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer --that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave...

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A grave blockhead...

A grave blockhead...

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they shew one another off to the best...

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