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34 quotesRemember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
Facts
James Gordon Bennett
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Life and Living
Josh Billings
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Enthusiasm
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Nations
Lord Burleigh
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Empire
Lord Byron
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Procrastination
Miguel De Cervantes
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Greed
Charles Caleb Colton
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
Patience
Charles Caleb Colton
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
War and Peace
Edward Dahlberg
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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Parents and Parenting
Clarence Darrow
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We moralize among ruins.
Morality
Benjamin Disraeli
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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
Purpose
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
John Dryden
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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Politicians and Politics
John Dryden
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A man is a god in ruins.
Adversity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Economy and Economics
Benjamin Franklin
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Conformity
Benjamin Franklin
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Dreams
Eric Hoffer
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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
Food and Eating
Kin Hubbard
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Luxury
Charles De Montesquieu
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Praise
Norman Vincent Peale
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Success tempts many to their ruin.
Success
Phaedrus
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Arrogance
Alexander Pope
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi
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A land without ruins is a land without memoriesa land without memories is a land without history.
Uncategorised
Abram Joseph Ryan
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun