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Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.


George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.
LORD HALIFAX Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
LORD HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
GEOGRE SAVILLE Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
INDIRA GANDHI Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An angry person is seldom reasonable; a reasonable person is seldom angry.
UNKNOWN Always something new, seldom something good.
GERMAN PROVERB Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven
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PAUL O'NEIL One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing
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CHARLES CALEB COLTON Always something new, seldom something good.
PROVERB Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
DANISH PROVERB Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...
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TITUS LIVY I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else
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VERA NAZARIAN Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
CONFUCIUS Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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J. HAWES The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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AMY SEDARIS A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
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JIM GENOVESE Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
PATRICK KAVANAGH Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. MENCKEN It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
GARRISON KEILLOR The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
MASON COOLEY He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.
AESOP He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
AESOP True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Very seldom it happens, but occasionally it does.
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THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation
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THOMAS ALDRICH A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished mys...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The busy have no time for tears.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In solitude, where we are least alone.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON To fly from, need not be to hate, makind:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have bre...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
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