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There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon. Charles Caleb Colton
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Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. Charles Caleb Colton
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Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings. Charles Caleb Colton
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The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs. Charles Caleb Colton
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It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it? Charles Spurgeon
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See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed. Charles Spurgeon
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You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun. Charles Spurgeon
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I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. Alan Moore
kings dark blow
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent To blow up the King and Parli’ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s providence he was catch’d With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King! Alan Moore
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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
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There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
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Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. David R. Ellis
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The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
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Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time. John Segrich
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell. Carol Jordan
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We are seeing a new appetite for south-of-the-border securities coming from U.S. investors who have started realizing that the extraordinary returns they saw in 1995 and '96 will not be repeated again, so they're looking for opportunities elsewhere. Jorge Mariscal
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We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding. Louise Gluck
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Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Nicolas Chamfort
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Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence C. S. Lewis
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When we went to the representatives and the governor, there was understanding, but there just wasn't the appetite there for it to happen this year. We listened to that and pulled back from that arena. Anna Olson
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The product (in Japan) will be lessened. The local demand will remain, but the teams are just realizing now their monopoly is crumbling because of the major leagues. The major leagues have put a major dent on fans' appetite for Japanese baseball. Jim Allen
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I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite for intellectual and artistic erudition, which, for the sake of balance, I keep well harnessed to a reliable sense of the absurd. Thomas Steinbeck
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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body. Joseph B. Wirthlin
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared. Takeru Kobayashi