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“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”
Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
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“Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.”
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“He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.”
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“When in doubt, win the trick.”
Source : Hoyle's Games Improved, ed. Charles Jones (1790).
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“People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.”
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“Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.”
Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.387
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“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.”
Source : "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,
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“Rappers are in danger Who will use wits to be a remainder?”
