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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Society
Lord Acton

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Marriage
Ambrose Bierce

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Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
Comedy and Comedians
Lita Grey Chaplin

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Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure.
Economy and Economics
Sir Anthony Eden

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Simplicity
Henry Ford

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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
Conscience
Sigmund Freud

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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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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Detail
Heraclitus

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.
Goals
Percy H. Johnson

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Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Antipathy
Samuel Johnson

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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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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
Judgment and Judges
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
Plagiarism
Malcolm Mclaren

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Virtue
Iris Murdoch

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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
Angels
George Bernard Shaw

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Age and Aging
Mark Twain

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