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Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
Books - Reading
Francis Bacon

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Court
Francis Bacon

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He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
Sons
Nicolas Bentley

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Flattery
Josh Billings

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Enjoyment
Hugh Blair

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Unhappiness
Dorothea Brande

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The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
Repentance
Walter Brower

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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Praise
Pearl S. Buck

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Heroes and Heroism
Winston Churchill

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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Hatred
Marcus T. Cicero

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Gifts
Marcus T. Cicero

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World records are only borrowed.
Performance
Sebastian Coe

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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Jealousy
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Pity
Charles Caleb Colton

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Action
Dante Alighieri

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The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
Leaders and Leadership
R. S. Donnell

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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Children
Isadora Duncan

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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith

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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Respectability
Billy Graham

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Failure
Joseph Heller

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
Responsibility
Gerald W. Johnson

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The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
World
Lyndon B. Johnson

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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Brotherhood
Lyndon B. Johnson

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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson

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