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class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. Charles Dickens
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own. Charles Dickens
class safety age
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. Charles Dickens
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict. Charles Dickens
class homicide one-thing
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out Chris Colfer
class two people
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. Dave Barry
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. Cesare Pavese
class black why-not
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? Carter G. Woodson
class white benefits
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Camille Paglia
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him. Charles Caleb Colton
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!... Charles Dickens
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. Charles Dickens
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may. Charles Dickens
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
parents tap trying word
We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource. John Whiting
parents teach
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. The Talmud
parents stable throughout
Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough. John Banks
parents safety
The outcry from the parents was so terrific. Safety issues. Joyce Haldeman
parents student successful
We're able to make more successful connections between student sitters and parents. Ronda Reid
parents product whether
We're a product of our parents, whether we like it or not. David Bell
parents worried
We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked. Pete Carroll
parents treated
Yes, she was treated differently. She was treated better by my parents than she's been treated her whole life. Kristen Staab
parents somewhat stereotype travel word
There is a stereotype to the word travel being somewhat of an all-star team. Why else would parents want to do it? Michael Williams
pleasure duty
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. Alan Bennett
pleasure given recollection
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. Agnes Repplier
pleasure
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. Charles Lamb
pleasure pleasant
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. Charles Buxton
pleasure
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. Charles Baudelaire
pleasure pleasant pleasant-things
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. Baltasar Gracian
pleasure
Pleasure is everything. Diana Vreeland
pleasure products
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure David Brooks
pleasure source slippery
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. Billy Collins
watches nightmare film
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it. Alan Rickman
watches culture ugh
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know? Alan Ball
watches looks like-you
How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do. David Tennant
watches hours skates
I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours... Carolina Kostner
watches instinct impress
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. Charles Lindbergh
watches lord caught
We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
watches disaster conversation
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! David Brin
watches trailers
I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh. Benh Zeitlin
watches world
I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. Audrey Hepburn