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R S Surtees: More people are...

R S Surtees: More people are...

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

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Aesop: Example is the...

Aesop: Example is the...

Example is the best precept.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Aesop: Obscurity brings safety....

Aesop: Obscurity brings safety....

Obscurity brings safety.

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

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Earl Warren: It is the...

Earl Warren: It is the...

It is the spirit and not the form of the law that keeps justice alive.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: However great an...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: However great an...

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: The government is...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: The government is...

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

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A E Housman: About the woodlands...

A E Housman: About the woodlands...

About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.


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Hugo L Black: It is the...

Hugo L Black: It is the...

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting...

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Arthur J Goldberg: Modern diplomats approach...

Arthur J Goldberg: Modern diplomats approach...

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

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John Dalberg Acton: Be not content...

John Dalberg Acton: Be not content...

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

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Cornelius Nepos: No government is...

Cornelius Nepos: No government is...

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

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John Dalberg Acton: Writers the most...

John Dalberg Acton: Writers the most...

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit...

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J Saunders Redding: From adolescence to...

J Saunders Redding: From adolescence to...

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

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J Saunders Redding: I would not...

J Saunders Redding: I would not...

I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself....

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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is...

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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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