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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
height influence reader
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. Caitlin Flanagan
height scared
I'm scared shitless of heights. Mark Cuban
height would-be folly
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Edward Gorey
height firsts poet
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson
height depth literature
You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. Edwin Louis Cole
height moral scales
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. Agnes Repplier
height fifth-grade growing
I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade. Billy Crystal
height stills terrified
I'm still pretty terrified of heights. Jamie Bell
height particular weight
There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages. Henry Beard
certain diffidence valour
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
certain one-thing
For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same. Alan Moore
certainty evidence deals
Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence. David Milne
certain head movies
I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies. Lucas Till
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I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view. Lisa Cholodenko
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If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees. Michael Specter
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I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty. Monica Lewinsky
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Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward. Scott Long
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