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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Family
Ann Oakley

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We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
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John Randolph

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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Duty
John D. Rockefeller

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Government
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Gratitude
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Marriage
Helen Rowland

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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Justice
Seneca

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Duty
George Bernard Shaw

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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
Cooperation
Samuel Smiles

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Duty
Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is the newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
Newspapers
Wilbur F. Storey

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The first duty of love is to listen.
Listening
Paul Tillich

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Painters and Painting
Vincent Van Gogh

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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Pleasure
Voltaire

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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Despair
Elie Wiesel

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Music
Oscar Wilde

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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Duty
Oscar Wilde

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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Character
Woodrow T. Wilson

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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Critics and Criticism
Woodrow T. Wilson

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Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.
Health
Zoroaster

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