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Thought and Reason
'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.9 · 6 votes · 126 reads
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Society
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.9 · 62 votes · 136 reads
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Feelings
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
3.1 · 21 votes · 88 reads
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Various
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
4.0 · 15 votes · 51 reads
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Various
A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
3.2 · 25 votes · 154 reads
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Various
'To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses deligh
Friedrich Nietzsche
WriterGerman1844 · 19th century
5.0 · 35 votes · 149 reads
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Nature
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
3.6 · 21 votes · 142 reads
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Various
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
Virginia Woolf
WriterBritish1882 · 19th century
3.7 · 23 votes · 19 reads
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Defects
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
3.4 · 13 votes · 146 reads
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Thought and Reason
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
3.7 · 29 votes · 15 reads
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