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456 quotesEgotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
Egotism
Ambrose Bierce
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Laziness
Ambrose Bierce
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Law Suits
Ambrose Bierce
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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
Speakers and Speaking
Josh Billings
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Age and Aging
Josh Billings
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Journalism and Journalists
Otto Von Bismarck
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Arts and Artists
Professor Blackie
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
Suffering
Sir William Blackstone
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
Enemies
William Blake
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Praise
Nicholas Boileau
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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Power
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Scandal
Francis H. Bradley
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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
Goals
Les Brown
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I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
Personality
Norman O. Brown
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Failure is an event, never a person.
Failure
William D. Brown
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Grief
Jean De La Bruyere
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Friends and Friendship
Jean De La Bruyere
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
Deceit
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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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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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Aid and Assistance
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
Ideas
Ralph Bunche
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Favors
Robert Burns
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
Happiness
Albert Camus
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
Innocence
Albert Camus
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Goodness
Elias Canetti
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun