Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.


George Gordon Byron

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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
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A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Laughter is poison to fear.
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A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]
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A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
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The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
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Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
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A wise person can do more with one opportunity than a fool with a thousand.
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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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From what we can tell, this is nothing more than a reasonable disagreement among reasonable people.
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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
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A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
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Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
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Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
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Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
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Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
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Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of need.
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Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--
For years fleet away with the wings of t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The good old times -- all times when old are good.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fev...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatio...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms,...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in cour...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to pu...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre --but still it is a grand one....
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of th...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON