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“Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.”
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“Consumers all over the world will be able to flip open their phones and see their favorite Warner Music videos.”
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“music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.”
Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada
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“Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.”
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“The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.”
Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.11
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“The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.”
Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 1: The Seven Sages, 6, 1925.
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“...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.”
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“Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”
Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.136, Belford Bros.
