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ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE