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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Affection
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Justice
Walter Savage Landor

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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Giving
Lao-Tzu

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Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
Eyes
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
Gossip
D. H. Lawrence

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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Colleges and Universities
Doris Lessing

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Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
Results
James Ling

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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Courtesy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
James Russell Lowell

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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Desire
James Russell Lowell

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Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.
Preachers and Preaching
Sir Arnold Lunn

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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Cynics and Cynicism
Russell Lynes

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Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
Nature
Eric Mackay

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.
Truth
David Mamet

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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Habit
Horace Mann

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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Marya Mannes

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Love
Katherine Mansfield

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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Blood
Don Marquis

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
Work, Hard
Don Marquis

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Brander Matthews

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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love
H. L. Mencken

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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Meredith

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.
Friends and Friendship
Claude Mermet

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Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.
Sorrow
Joni Mitchell

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