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13535 quotesViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Violence
Salvor Hardin
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Slang
Thomas Hardy
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Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
Swearing
Thomas Hardy
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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
Management
Thomas Hardy
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Contradiction
Thomas Hardy
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Custom
Thomas Hardy
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Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!
Victims
Thomas Hardy
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
Luck
Thomas Hardy
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Heaven
Thomas Hardy
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Caution
A. W. Hare
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Children always turn to the light.
Children
David Hare
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In oratory the will must predominate.
Will and Will Power
David Hare
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Heaven
David Hare
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
Virtue
David Hare
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Smiles are the language of love.
Smile
David Hare
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
Strength
David Hare
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Belief
David Hare
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Civilization
David Hare
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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
Thoughts and Thinking
David Hare
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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Truth
J. C. Hare
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The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
Puritans
Kenneth Hare
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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
Life and Living
Donald Harington
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Books - Reading
John Harington
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun