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“The best manners are stained by haughtiness.”
John Clarke Quotes Source: Paroemiologia (p. 21, ed. 1639)
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“They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.”
John Clarke Quotes Source: Paroemiologia (p. 21, ed. 1639)
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“Avoid excess.”
Cleobulus of Lindos Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Hope is a waking dream.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“So use your own property as not to injure that of another.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“Where there are many counsellors there is safety.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in
it.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“Hell is paved with good intentions.”
Lord Edward Coke Quotes Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
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“On their own merits modest men are dumb.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her
cradle, and discards her nurse.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to
venture to instruct, even our friends.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the
dinner.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“Married in haste we may repent at leisure.”
George Colman "The Younger" Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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“Sop to Cerebus.
If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.”
William Congreve Quotes Source: Love for Love (act I, sc. 1)
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“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
William Congreve Quotes Source: The Mourning Bride (act III, sc. 2)
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“No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]”
Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel Quotes Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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