With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.


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With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
An empty skull is the vanitas symbol of modern education.
BAUVARD
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
AMBROSE GWINETT BIERCE
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
AMBROSE BIERCE
No sense makes sense.” Charles Manson
VINCENT BUGLIOSI
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GEORGE ELIOT
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CHARLES DUHIGG
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his ...
JAMES C. HUMES
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his ...
JAMES C. HUMES
Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sen...
ISAIAH BERLIN
The bullet never penetrated his skull,
JAY KAY
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Chur...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Emotions without logic are blind. Logic without emotions is dull. Logic with positive emotions leads...
IRFAN SAEED
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his ...
SUZANNE FIELDS
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
MAO ZEDONG
Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.
JAMIE FOXX
Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
JAMIE FOXX
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
A world without boredom would be dull.
SUSAN MAUSHART
Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Ch...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
Life is full of uncertainties. Ye must grasp the moment.
VARIOUS
I left the Shire,
got 7 outstanding N.E.W.T.'s
and became a Vampire;
Because Winter i...
VARIOUS
Take you example by this thing,/ And yield to each his right,/ Lest God with such like miserye/ Your...
VARIOUS
This diversity of misery and joy is no more than excited neurons in the skull.
YAMIN RASHEED
A hen cannot produce an empty shell, likewise a child cannot be born without purpose in his bosom.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skul...
STEPHEN KING
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull...
LL COOL J
Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our h...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
We want your skull! Make no bones about it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
The problem with thick skin is that it leaves you impervious to the sharpest of pins. Everything bec...
MICHAEL SOLL
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approache...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without l...
HELEN ROWLAND
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
IMMANUEL KANT
My world was ordered, calm, and controlled, then you came into my life with your smart mouth, your i...
E.L. JAMES
Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Souther...
MEGHAN DAUM
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindne...
AUSTIN FARRAR
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, ...
AUSTIN FARRAR
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON
I do Q&As, not readings.
MARTHA GRIMES
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER
We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country...
AL GORE
Winning without trying is empty. Losing without effort is career changing.
BART A D'ANGELO
Servitude is your legacy. It’s in your genes, peasant, or at least it had better be, or Mr. Banker...
BOBBY W. MILLER
I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
ROD SERLING
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
ROD STERLING
How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.
UMBERTO ECO
She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
The trip kind of started out big, but it's fizzled out now. Basically, Charles is kind of boring. A ...
DUNCAN LARCOMBE
...And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the pr...
NIKOLAS SCHRECK
Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.
CORNELIA FUNKE
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
KARL BARTH
Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it di...
ARTHUR L. HERMAN
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquoi...
RACHEL BLANCHARD
Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
GEORGE ORWELL
ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He ...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Before the Charles fight, he fought Jimmy Beau in a main event at Madison Square Garden. He won a 10...
DON HAMILTON
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TAYLOR HACKFORD
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
WOODY ALLEN
Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leathe...
RICK RIORDAN
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
PEARL S. BUCK
We may be entering a period in which policy changes are even more dependent than they have been on c...
CATHY MINEHAN
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ...
MARGARET MEAD
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
TOM STOPPARD
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate dif...
UMBERTO ECO
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image...
DONALD MARQUIS (D.R.P. MARQUIS) ("DON MARQUIS")
We have a regular readings and study sessions.
FILIP LOSOWSKI
his various chins turned purple
GEORGE ORWELL
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs -- when I was 17 -- that I realized I was talki...
ALLEN GINSBERG
School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintell...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The base of my skull was showing. I have absolutely no doubt about it. I'd be dead without that helm...
BOB ROGERS
Ideally, we will see something we recognize from the conductor's reading in the musicians' readings ...
DANIEL LEVITIN
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DARIUS RUCKER
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do...
WILLIE NELSON
The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Ve...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
It has a kind of artsy, flamboyant look to it. Now it's taking traditional design and going over the...
BOB BAXTER
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking...
ALLEN GINSBERG
Without love we are nothing more than an empty canvas...
PHILIP T. M.
Without LOVE we are no more than an empty canvas...
PHILIP T. M.
Without love we are not more than an empty canvas.
PHILIP T. M.
It's a very unusual skull with this crest coming off it.
JAMES CLARK
Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
MORRISSEY
It is time for Charles Taylor to have his day in court.
KANJI DARAMY
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER
We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of n...
HENRY MILLER
As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - ...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON
Let the challenging moment makes you strong & strong. If one takes challenge in his stride,it makes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
When you're empty, go with empty.
LESLIE MIKLOSY
My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various r...
MADELINE KAHN
In that sense, he didn't sit still. He tried in various ways to stimulate and even provoke the depar...
WILLIAM SHAFFER

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Falsehoods border on truths.
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Every animal loves itself.
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Do nothing twice over.
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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
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As you sow, so shall you also reap.
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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
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All soils are not fertile.
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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.
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And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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A joke's a very serious thing.
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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I criticize by creation--not by finding fault.
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But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.
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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
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Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
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Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
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Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.
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Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.
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Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred.
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Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Genius is of no country.
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Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
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The more haste, ever the worst speed.
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He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
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No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.
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As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo.
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Even in a hero's heart, Discretion is the better part
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Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone;/ Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.
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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
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Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.
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The danger chiefly lies in acting well,/ No crime's so great as daring to excel.
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So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.
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Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense
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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
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A joke's a very serious thing.
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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
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In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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History is written by the victors.
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If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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Truth is the best defense.
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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Never, never, never give up.
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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Success is in the details.
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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
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No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
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The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
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I wanted to make a clever chemistry joke, but the best ones argon.
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He who laughs last didn't get it.
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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smi...
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Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
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As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is ...
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another ma...
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When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says somethi...
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Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning
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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up th...
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungr...
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved ...
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