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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Samuel Johnson

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A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
Piety
Samuel Johnson

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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Language
Samuel Johnson

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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Sincerity
Samuel Johnson

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Focus
Samuel Johnson

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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
Tragedies
Samuel Johnson

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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Sea
Samuel Johnson

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When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Speculation
Samuel Johnson

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Mistakes
Franklin P. Jones

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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience
Franklin P. Jones

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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Franklin P. Jones

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Advice
Erica Jong

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert

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When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.
Impossibility
Florence Griffith Joyner

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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Fate
Carl Jung

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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Wealth
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Self-knowledge
Franz Kafka

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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
Crisis
Ryszard Kapuscinski

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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
Obstacles
Ryszard Kapuscinski

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When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
Debt
George S. Kaufman

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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Ambition
Kenneth Kaunda

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Originality
Patrick Kavanagh

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
Death and Dying
John Keats

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The funniest line in English is Get it? When you say that, everyone chortles.
Jokes and Jokers
Garrison Keillor

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
Life and Living
Helen Keller

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