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3,397 Famous Quotes by Unknown
“You are judged of by what you possess.”
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“You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.”
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“You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.”
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“Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.”
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“[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.”
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“All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.”
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“Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply?”
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“An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.”
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“An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.”
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“Be a gentleman farmer.”
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“Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.”
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“But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!”
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“Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]”
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“Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.”
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“Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.”
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“Every great house is full of saucy servants.”
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“Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!”
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“Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.”
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“From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.”
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“Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.”
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“He claims a monopoly in friendship.”
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“He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter.”
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“He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]”
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“He is a Jack of all trades.”
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“He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]”
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