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Thought and Reason
'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.9 · 6 votes · 126 reads
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Society
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
3.1 · 32 votes · 139 reads
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Various
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
4.0 · 15 votes · 51 reads
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Art and Culture
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.5 · 50 votes · 11 reads
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Nature
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
3.6 · 21 votes · 142 reads
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Various
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century
4.9 · 5 votes · 188 reads
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Virtues
'Frank and explicit'' - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century
3.8 · 60 votes · 12 reads
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Thought and Reason
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Francis Bacon
PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century
5.0 · 58 votes · 199 reads
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Various
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
Virginia Woolf
WriterBritish1882 · 19th century
3.7 · 23 votes · 19 reads
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Society
''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
PoetBritish1874 · 19th century
4.1 · 57 votes · 112 reads
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