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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Dress
Oliver Goldsmith

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Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.
Stability
J. D. Griffin

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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Contentment
Thomas C. Haliburton

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Character
Colin Hay

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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Grace
William Hazlitt

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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
Speculation
William Hazlitt

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The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
World
Ernest Hemingway

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An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
Miracles
A. P. Herbert

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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Ability
Elbert Hubbard

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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Aldous Huxley

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Sorrow
Washington Irving

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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
Exercise
St. Jerome

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Simplicity
Samuel Johnson

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Insanity
Oscar Levant

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.
Friends and Friendship
Leonard Louis Levinson

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Nonviolence
Malcolm X

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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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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith
H. L. Mencken

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
Knowledge
Moliere

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Life and Living
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Surviving well is your finest revenge.
Revenge
Morgan Nito

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Adversity
Richard M. Nixon

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Originality
Laurence J. Peter

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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Birth
Plutarch

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Vulgarity
Alexander Pope

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