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41 quotesMorality is a private and costly luxury.
Morality
Henry Brooks Adams
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The post of honor is a private station.
Honor
Joseph Addison
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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
Experience
James Baldwin
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Opinions
Henry Ward Beecher
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Public Opinion
Walter Benjamin
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To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
Philanthropists
Josh Billings
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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
Leaders and Leadership
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Myth
Joseph Campbell
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Sin
Miguel De Cervantes
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Government
John Jay Chapman
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Truth
Charles Caleb Colton
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
Property
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Quarrels
George Eliot
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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Privacy
George Eliot
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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
Property
Sigmund Freud
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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
Friends and Friendship
Ibn Gabirol
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In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
Grief
Grannville
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One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.
Punishment
Hitopadesa
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Protest
Eric Hoffer
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
Memory
Aldous Huxley
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I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
Privacy
Peter Jennings
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Servants
Samuel Johnson
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Passion
Alphonse De Lamartine
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Property
Walter Lippmann
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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
Death and Dying
Andrew Marvell
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun