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people may medical
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
people solitude multitudes
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. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
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. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
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. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
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
invention tyranny recollection
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts. Edgar Degas
invention inventor valuable
An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, Eli Whitney
invention patent protect
The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant. Craig McHugh
invention
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. Sydney Smith
invention
Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions Alexander Graham Bell
invention conscience
Conscience is a Jewish invention. Adolf Hitler
invention nineteenth-century method
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. Alfred North Whitehead
invention letdowns i-realized
I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention. Chuck Palahniuk
invention
Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener. Andy Kindler