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3818 English Quotes

He who stops being better stops being good.
Being Better Good He
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Deceive Integrity May Never
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Nature can do more than physicians.
More Nature Physicians Than
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Going He High Knows
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Cheering Going Hanged Much
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

Must Necessary Party Right
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Looks Picasso Sausage Someone
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

Act Any Fun Here
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The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
Critical Matrimony Period
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

About Anything Descend Earth
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Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

Doing Everyone Find Out
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
Happens Heart Simply What
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

Creation Each Feather Foot
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Back Being Communion Connection
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

Administration Bad Bush Bush Administration
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Look Meaning Weigh Words
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Choice Consists Friends Happiness
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Art Beast Brave Flatterer
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Begin Common Disease Either
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ambition Makes More Need
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Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Art Enemy Hath Ignorance
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Language Man May Most
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Fear Greater Hell Prisoner
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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Adversity Knows Met Own
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Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Good Hat Honor Man
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Fool Himself Master Only
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Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Call Mischief Past Them
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Beauties Just Life May
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ages Good Illustrate Live
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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Careless Commonly Curious Face
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Eloquence Same Speak Talking
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Accuracy Confidence Had Industry
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I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Afford Again Back Better
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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Girl Grand Like Pianos
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What we've discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.

American Discovered Humor Love
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If you can mix glamor and gags, then you can catch the audience twice over.

Audience Catch Mix Over
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I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.

Between Bridge Girl Laugh
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I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

Cemetery Certainly Family Man
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I don't do something I won't enjoy just for the money. I do it for the fun, for the joy of working.

Enjoy Fun Joy Just
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A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Anything Delusion Fails Funny
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Book Each Felt Like
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Always Clutch Excuse Hearth
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Contrast Counterfeit Crises Deeply
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Desire End Felt Heard
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Away Exhausting Far Know
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