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181 quotesAn honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Injury
William Hazlitt
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Familiarity
William Hazlitt
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Complaints and Complaining
Horace
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The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
Elections
Kin Hubbard
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Fear
Zora Neale Hurston
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Churches
Robert Green Ingersoll
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They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
Defense
Captain James
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
Science and Scientists
P. D. James
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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
Government
Thomas Jefferson
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Procrastination
Thomas Jefferson
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The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Churches
Samuel Johnson
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Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Secrets
Samuel Johnson
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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.
Forgiveness
Juoy
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Reliance
Henry Kissinger
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Promotion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Books - Reading
Charles Lamb
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I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Food and Eating
Burt Lancaster
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The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
Seduction
Rosamond Lehmann
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Selfishness
Oscar Levant
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Humor
Abraham Lincoln
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Character
Abraham Lincoln
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Communication
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.
Procrastination
George H. Lonmer
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Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.
Preachers and Preaching
Sir Arnold Lunn
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun