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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Topic: Agreement
Source: None
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Topic: Boredom
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Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Topic: Conscience
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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may -make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Topic: Dogs
Source: None
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Topic: Evil
Source: None
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Topic: Freedom
Source: None
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.
Topic: Gold
Source: None
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It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Topic: History
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Topic: History
Source: None
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Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
Topic: Independence
Source: None
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Topic: Lawyers
Source: None
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Topic: Lies
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Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
Topic: Life
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Topic: Loss
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To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.
Topic: Love
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Topic: Love lost
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Topic: Lying
Source: None
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Topic: Lying
Source: None
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We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Topic: Lying
Source: None
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Topic: Opinions
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Topic: Progress
Source: None
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Topic: Reason
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Topic: Tact
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Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
Topic: Tact
Source: None
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Topic: Truth
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Topic: Vices
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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
Topic: Waste
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Topic: Welfare
Source: None
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