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revenge men hands
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another. Charles Caleb Colton
revenge men insult
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
revenge humble doubt
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.
revenge self community
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.
revenge knaves able
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
revenge blood fever
Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
revenge enemy remember
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
revenge pay debt
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
revenge should-have creative
We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge China Mieville
cat animal humanity
What greater gift than the love of a cat. Charles Dickens
cat men light
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.
cat swings rooms
There wasn't room to swing a cat there.
cat boots milk
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. Charles Stuart Calverley
cat violin scraping
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. Alan Watts
cat animal names
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. Alan Ayckbourn
catholic too-much belief
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private. Alan Alda
catholic doe shapes
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
cat herding-cats democrat
Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats. Al Sharpton
violin wells
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. Alison Krauss
violin use sometimes
I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger. Aleksey Igudesman
violin way hearing
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way. Daniel Barenboim
violin limits use
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin. David Garrett
violin
CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
violin kind fame
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less. George Eliot
violin instruments humans
…the violin — that most human of all instruments… Louisa May Alcott
violin
I tried to learn the violin for a while. Peter Wright
violin aging dove
The older the violin, the sweeter the music. Larry McMurtry