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ignorance pride whole-family
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance errors steps
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
ignorance pride thinking
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
ignorance vices principles
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
ignorance knowledge men
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. Charles Spurgeon
ignorance sky knowing
The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong? Alan Watts
ignorance reality expectations
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ... Alan Greenspan
gentleman
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. Charles Dickens
gentleman cost pedants
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.
gentleman knaves wealth
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
gentleman deception fiction
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."
gentleman sometimes
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
gentleman kind
He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady. Caitlin Kittredge
gentleman principles looks
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. Caleb Cushing
gentleman may venture
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ... Catherine the Great
gentleman profanity swearing
When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. William Shakespeare
ugly suits mood
Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit? Bryan Ferry
ugly honest comedy
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw. Aisha Tyler
ugly fame stressful
You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over. Diablo Cody
ugly looks action
... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive. Deb Caletti
ugly flawless
There's something ugly about the flawless. Dennis Lehane
ugly vices mask
Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask. Benjamin Franklin
ugly vices virtue
Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
ugly found difficult
I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself. Brigitte Bardot
ugly tribes novelists
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation. Jane Gardam