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1871 quotesFor what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Neighbors
Jane Austen
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Cities and City Life
Jane Austen
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
Improvement
Francis Bacon
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame
Francis Bacon
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Conceit
Francis Bacon
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Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
Books - Reading
Francis Bacon
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Speech
Francis Bacon
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Francis Bacon
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Theater
Enid Bagnold
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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
God
Mira Bai
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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
Teams and Teamwork
James Baldwin
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Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
Media
Stanley Baldwin
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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Knowledge
Ivern Ball
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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Advice
Ivern Ball
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Equality
Honore De Balzac
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Painters and Painting
Honore De Balzac
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Pleasure
Honore De Balzac
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Fools and Foolishness
Honore De Balzac
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Power
Honore De Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Vocation
Honore De Balzac
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Exaggeration
Honore De Balzac
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Dishonesty
George Bancroft
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Mistakes
Tallulah Bankhead
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The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Alben W. Barkley
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The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Basketball
Charles Barkley
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun