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136 quotesThe proper study of mankind is woman.
Humankind
Henry Brooks Adams
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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
Creativity
Alfonso X
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Mistakes
Henri Frederic Amiel
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Soul
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Man proposes, woman forecloses.
Seduction
Minna Antrim
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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
Power
Archimedes
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
Names
W. H. Auden
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Work
Jane Austen
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Beauty
Francis Bacon
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Sanity
Henry Ward Beecher
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A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.
Honor
Bible
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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Crime and Criminals
Ambrose Bierce
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An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Optimism
Ambrose Bierce
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Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
Prophecy
Ambrose Bierce
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Insanity
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Censorship
Thomas Bowdler
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Courage
Omar Bradley
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I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
Personality
Norman O. Brown
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Marriage
Jean De La Bruyere
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Dreams
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Relationships
Angela Carter
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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Fashion
Coco Chanel
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Agreement
John Jay Chapman
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Life itself is the proper binge.
Life and Living
Julia Child
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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
Punishment
Marcus T. Cicero
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun