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Marcus Tullius Cicero: The wise are...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: The wise are...

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Let reason govern...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Let reason govern...

Let reason govern desire.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Nancy Astor: It isn't the...

Nancy Astor: It isn't the...

It isn't the common man at all who is important; it's the uncommon man.

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Aristotle: A good style...

Aristotle: A good style...

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must . . . be appropriate.

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Aristotle: The two qualities...

Aristotle: The two qualities...

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only...

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Aristotle: We must no...

Aristotle: We must no...

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are...

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Action and faith...

Action and faith...

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism,...

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Without the aid...

Without the aid...

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the...

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Surrealism is a...

Surrealism is a...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is...

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GUILLOTINE, n. A...

GUILLOTINE, n. A...

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

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HEATHEN, n. A...

HEATHEN, n. A...

HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and...

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HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The...

HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The...

HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

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HURRICANE, n. An...

HURRICANE, n. An...

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone....

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HUSBAND, n. One...

HUSBAND, n. One...

HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.

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JEALOUS, adj. Unduly...

JEALOUS, adj. Unduly...

JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth...

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LAST, n. A...

LAST, n. A...

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of...

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LEVIATHAN, n. An...

LEVIATHAN, n. An...

LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but [others]...

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JOSS-STICKS, n. Small...

JOSS-STICKS, n. Small...

JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of...

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MATERIAL, adj. Having...

MATERIAL, adj. Having...

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one....

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MANICHEISM, n. The...

MANICHEISM, n. The...

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight...

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