Brevity is the soul of wit.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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Since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limits and outward flourishers I will be brief.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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Every man has his price.

- Sir Robert Walpole -

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold.Esteem and love were never to be sold.

- Pope, Essay on Man -

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Too poor for a bribe, and too pround to importune. He had not the method of making a fortune.

- Grey, On his Own Character -

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Am I brother's keeper ?

- Old Testament, Genesis, iv -

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A brother is a friend given by nature.

- J.B.Legouv -

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No distance breaks the tie of blood;Brothers are brothers evermore.Father and motherAsk reverence; a brother only love.

- Tennyson, In Memoriam -

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Ther is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God.

- H.M.Field -

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The conviction of the justification of using even most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.

- Adlof Hitler, Mein Kampf -

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He built it better than he knew;The conscious stone to beauty grew.

- Emerson, The Problem -

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It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and piece ofscarlet serge draped over a sick.

- Earnest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon -

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That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

- Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler -

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Business to-day consists in persuading crowds.

- Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds -

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The man who is above the business may one day find his business above him.

- H.W.Beecher -

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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualified with a 'but'.

- H.W.Beecher -

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