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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Words
Karl Kraus

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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Nations
Stanley Kubrick

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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
Nations
Stanley Kubrick

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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
Fiction
Milan Kundera

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Achievement
Charles Kuralt

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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Greatness
Jean De La Bruyere

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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Generosity
Jean De La Bruyere

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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Greatness
Jean De La Fontaine

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Speakers and Speaking
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Company
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
Cleverness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Flattery
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
Fame
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Innocence
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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Greatness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Ability
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Ingratitude
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Achievement
Alphonse De Lamartine

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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Books - Reading
Charles Lamb

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Adversity
Ann Landers

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Great men always pay deference to greater.
Greatness
Walter Savage Landor

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