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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Fashion
Henri B. Stendhal

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Solitude
Henri B. Stendhal

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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Amusement
Laurence Sterne

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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Complaints and Complaining
Laurence Sterne

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Complexity
Wallace Stevens

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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Vision
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Generations
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Civilization
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Uncategorised
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Everyone lives by selling something.
Sales
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
Marriage
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
World
Robert Louis Stevenson

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
Travel and Tourism
Robert Louis Stevenson

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.
Marriage
Richard Henry Stoddard

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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
Lies and Lying
I. F. Stone

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If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
Ask
W. Clement Stone

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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Trying
W. Clement Stone

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Knowledge
Tom Stoppard

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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
Confidence
David Storey

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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Obstinacy
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
Failure
William Strong

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Business
Edwin H. Stuart

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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
Quality
Theodore Sturgeon

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
Thoughts and Thinking
Diamond Sutra

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun