The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.


Thomas Malthus

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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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Let victories be histories of your life andyour mistakes the intakes of your life!
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Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement
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Long Island has one of the oldest and richest histories of duck hunting in America.
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I revere this place more than any other. It's a mecca of so much, of all our histories.
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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
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People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.
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The history of mankind is a history of war.
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Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social
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We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private his...
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The city has made an exhaustive effort to complete the oral histories.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
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Her suspense was terrible.
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They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are...
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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A colleague asked me how many lawyer jokes there are. I told him just three ? the rest are documente...
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This is an exceptional cast even for us. People are pretty energized by all the personalities and pe...
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It is safe to say that every truth in the histories of those times (The Bible) is the result of acci...
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Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership pap...
THOMAS SANGSTER
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN
The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one
hundred twenty three degreeā€™s, caus...
THOMAS FERREOLUS
I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I...
THOMAS KAIL
My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en...
THOMAS RHETT
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...
THOMAS WOLFE
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
THOMAS TRAHERNE
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a...
THOMAS SZASZ
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you ca...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
God who gave us life gave us liberty. 1 Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed...
THOMAS JEFFERSON