Quotations Page 'C'

O, the more angle sheAnd you the blacker devil!

- Butler-Hudibras -

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Do I Contradict myself ?Very well, then I contradict myself.

- Walt Whitmen-Song of Myself -

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Assertion is not argument, to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that your are correct.

- Johnson -

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There is consolation in the fact that the controversies and in taking mineral waters, it is the after-effects that are real effects.

- Shakespeare, Dialogue on Religion -

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Silence is one great art of conversation.

- Hazlitt -

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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

- Emerson -

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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

- Montaique -

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There is only one antidote coquetry and that is true love.

- Madam Dehuzy -

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O that estate, degrees, and offices were not purchased by the meritof the water!

- Shakespeare -

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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

- Scorates (Quoted by Plutarch) -

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

- R.G.Ingersoll, The Declaration of Independence -

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A man of courage is also full faith.

- Cicero -

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Life is never so short, but there is always time for courtesy .

- Emerson -

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A court is an assemblage of noble and distinguished beggars.

- Tallyrand -

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She half consents, who silently denies.

- Ovid -

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Refrain from covetousness and the estate shall prosper.

- Plato -

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

- Shakespeare -

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Cowards die many times before their death;The valiant never tastes death but once.

- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -

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The coward never on himself relies,But to an equal for assistance flies.

- George Grable, Tole in Verse -

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