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Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
Facts
James Gordon Bennett

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Life and Living
Josh Billings

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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Enthusiasm
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Nations
Lord Burleigh

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Empire
Lord Byron

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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Procrastination
Miguel De Cervantes

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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Greed
Charles Caleb Colton

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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
Patience
Charles Caleb Colton

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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
War and Peace
Edward Dahlberg

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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Parents and Parenting
Clarence Darrow

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We moralize among ruins.
Morality
Benjamin Disraeli

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
Purpose
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
John Dryden

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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Politicians and Politics
John Dryden

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A man is a god in ruins.
Adversity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Economy and Economics
Benjamin Franklin

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Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Conformity
Benjamin Franklin

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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Dreams
Eric Hoffer

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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
Food and Eating
Kin Hubbard

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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Luxury
Charles De Montesquieu

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Praise
Norman Vincent Peale

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Success tempts many to their ruin.
Success
Phaedrus

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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Arrogance
Alexander Pope

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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi

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A land without ruins is a land without memoriesa land without memories is a land without history.
Uncategorised
Abram Joseph Ryan

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun