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To a woman...

To a woman...

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the...

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The tenderest spot...

The tenderest spot...

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

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The chief knowledge...

The chief knowledge...

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth...

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At seventy-seven it...

At seventy-seven it...

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Source: Journey to the Western Isles...

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The disesteem into...

The disesteem into...

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one...

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To be in...

To be in...

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Source: In

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The typical lawmaker...

The typical lawmaker...

The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle -- a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game....

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Sonny Liston: In the films...

Sonny Liston: In the films...

In the films the good guy always wins, but this is one bad guy who ain't gonna lose.

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Joe Namath: I think that...

Joe Namath: I think that...

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do...

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Mary Austin: Life set itself...

Mary Austin: Life set itself...

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very...

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Jean de LaBruyere: When a book...

Jean de LaBruyere: When a book...

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Wisdom does not...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Wisdom does not...

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches...

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John Tillotson: They who are...

John Tillotson: They who are...

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most...

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John Keble: The watchful mother...

John Keble: The watchful mother...

The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.

Source:...

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Joseph Smith: Man is that...

Joseph Smith: Man is that...

Man is that he might have joy.

Source: In Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations, by...

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Shunryu Suzuki: When you do...

Shunryu Suzuki: When you do...

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of...

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The newspapers are...

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The newspapers are...

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Alexander Crummell: It is a...

Alexander Crummell: It is a...

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of...

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Dogen: Do not arouse...

Dogen: Do not arouse...

Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a...

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Alexander Crummell: The greatness of...

Alexander Crummell: The greatness of...

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a...

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