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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Excellence
George Eliot

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Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.
Equality
Rubye Fields

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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Glutton
Benjamin Franklin

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Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Conformity
Benjamin Franklin

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Reason
Gaius C. Gallus

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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Law and Lawyers
Edward Gibbon

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
Business
Walter Gilbey

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Crime generally punishes itself.
Crime and Criminals
Oliver Goldsmith

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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
Favors
William Hazlitt

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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
self-esteem
William Hazlitt

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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Principles
Georg Hegel

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Theory
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
Age and Aging
Bob Hope

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Self-confidence
Aldous Huxley

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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Generals
Thomas Jefferson

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Disease
Samuel Johnson

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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson

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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
Habit
Samuel Johnson

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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Chance generally favors the prudent.
Fate
Joseph Joubert

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The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Torture
Carl Jung

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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
Action
Immanuel Kant

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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Men
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Pettiness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
Horses
Abraham Lincoln

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