“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
- 257
“ By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
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“ He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
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“ The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead. ”
- William Markiewicz- Copy
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“ False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ”
- William A. Sunday- Copy
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“ No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. ”
- P. D. James- Copy
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“ Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. ”
- George Meredith- Copy
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“ Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers- Copy
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“ There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security. ”
- Agnetha Faltskog- Copy
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“ Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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