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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Detail
Francois FeNelon

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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Writers and Writing
Edna Ferber

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I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?
Conquest
Duke of Alba Ferdinand Alvarez De Toledo

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When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.
Winners and Winning
Mark Fidrych

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
Death and Dying
Henry Fielding

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Death and Dying
Henry Fielding

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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Desire
Henry Fielding

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
Money
W. C. Fields

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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Abstinence
W. C. Fields

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
Life and Living
W. C. Fields

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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Carrie Fisher

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A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
Parents and Parenting
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Loneliness
Geoffrey F. Fisher

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I know myself, but that is all.
Self-knowledge
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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It is not something I must do but something I want to do
Choice
James Fixx

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The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
Trials
Will Foley

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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Understanding
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Seriousness
Dame Margot Fonteyn

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
Business
B. C. Forbes

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I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
Enemies
Gerald R. Ford

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Business
Henry Ford

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Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Conceit
Max L. Forman

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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Education
Edward M. Forster

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Change
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Liberty
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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