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| An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar |
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| An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere |
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| An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war |
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| An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect |
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| An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the Sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing |
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| And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows! |
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| Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. |
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| Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes. |
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| Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it. |
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| Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. |
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| Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first |
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| Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first |
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| Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. |
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| Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. |
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| As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and. . . Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards. |
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| As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized! |
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| As to the Adjective; when in doubt, strike it out |
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| At bottom he [Carlyle] was probably fond of them [the Americans], but he was always able to conceal it. |
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| At fifty a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass |
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