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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Favors
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
Judgment and Judges
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Inheritance
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Humankind
Niccolo Machiavelli

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Change
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Danger
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Punctuality
Niccolo Machiavelli

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promises
Niccolo Machiavelli

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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
War
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Will and Will Power
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
Nature
Eric Mackay

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The sale begins when the customer says yes.
Sales
Harvey Mackay

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.
Success
John W. Mackay

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If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.
Editing and Editors
Kelvin Mackenzie

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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Maxim
James Mackintosh

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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
Husbands
Shirley Maclaine

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Fear
Shirley Maclaine

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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
Manners
Alexander Maclaren

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?
Fear
Alexander Maclaren

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
God
Alexander Maclaren

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America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
America
Archibald Macleish

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Books - Reading
Hugh Maclennan

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The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
Influence
Iain Macleod

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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Funerals
Harold Macmillan

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Power
Harold Macmillan

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun