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The only sensual...

The only sensual...

The only sensual pleasure without vice.

Source: Referring to music. Johnsonian...

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The world will...

The world will...

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected,...

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Why do progress...

Why do progress...

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Source: Hour of Glory, Hour of...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: The time is...

Martin Luther King, Jr: The time is...

The time is always right to do what is right.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed....

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Property is intended...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Property is intended...

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal...

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Francis Bacon: Antiquities are history...

Francis Bacon: Antiquities are history...

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of...

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Aristotle: The moral virtues,...

Aristotle: The moral virtues,...

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the...

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Aristotle: Dignity consists not...

Aristotle: Dignity consists not...

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

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Francis Bacon: If the hill...

Francis Bacon: If the hill...

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

Source: Essays,...

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Francis Bacon: Let diaries, therefore,...

Francis Bacon: Let diaries, therefore,...

Let diaries, therefore, be brought in use.

Source: Essays, 'Of Travel'
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Francis Bacon: Philosophy when superficially...

Francis Bacon: Philosophy when superficially...

Philosophy when superficially studied excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels...

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Francis Bacon: Life, an age...

Francis Bacon: Life, an age...

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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John Henry Newman: Let us act...

John Henry Newman: Let us act...

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Andrea Dworkin: Women, for centuries...

Andrea Dworkin: Women, for centuries...

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket...

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Anthony J D'Angelo: You don't have...

Anthony J D'Angelo: You don't have...

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Source: The College Blue...

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We grow tired...

We grow tired...

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their...

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ERUDITION, n. Dust...

ERUDITION, n. Dust...

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Source: The Devil's...

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ENVY, n. Emulation...

ENVY, n. Emulation...

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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HANDKERCHIEF, n. A...

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A...

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially...

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HOMOEOPATHY, n. A...

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A...

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are...

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