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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
Courage
Jean Anouilh

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Cities and City Life
Aristotle

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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Temperament
Aristotle

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Aristotle

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Madness
Aristotle

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Beauty
Aristotle

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Virtue
Aristotle

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Genius
Aristotle

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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Greatness
Matthew Arnold

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Love
Elizabeth Ashley

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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
Communism and Socialism
Clement Attlee

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The greatest evil is physical pain.
Pain
St. Augustine

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Cities and City Life
Jane Austen

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Cities and City Life
Jane Austen

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Providence
Francis Bacon

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Conceit
Francis Bacon

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Nature
Francis Bacon

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Pleasure
Walter Bagehot

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Innovation
Walter Bagehot

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When great questions end, little parties begin.
Politicians and Politics
Walter Bagehot

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Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
Sex
Enid Bagnold

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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Burdens
Hosea Ballou

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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Fortune
Honore De Balzac

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Laughter
Honore De Balzac

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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Memory
Maurice Baring

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