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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
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A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism. Brian Eno
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name. E. L. Konigsburg
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Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world. Don Yaeger
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My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. Clint Eastwood
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I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor. Camille Paglia
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We are conveying the idea that Peking Opera is also part of fashion. Of all our customers so far, some were Peking Opera admirers like Lu, and the rest came simply because of our art photos. Qin Zhang
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Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell. Allan Gurganus
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I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.
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In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise. Tom Brokaw
despise plenty
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it. Cesare Pavese
despised involved people provincial stayed
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world. Edmund White
despised good half lives longer nearly people
The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed. Kathleen Troia McFarland
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I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Helen Oyeyemi
despise men naturally respect
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Thucydides
despise things-to-do courses
Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do. Agatha Christie
despised hate learned until
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
despise thyself
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise Edward Young
despise leading opportunity
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. Charles Spurgeon