“ Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. ”
- Eliza Farnham- Copy
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“ Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare.". ”
- C. Northcote Parkinson- Copy
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“ A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome. ”
- Karen McDougal- Copy
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“ Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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“ It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. ”
- Henry Lawson- Copy
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“ Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. ”
- Joe Orton- Copy
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“ People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ”
- Thich Nhat Hanh- Copy
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“ Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. ”
- Cynthia Ozick- Copy
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“ After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look… I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes…but your everyday life does start to become…familiar. ”
- David Assael- Copy
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“ I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
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“ Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change. ”
- Katharine Butler Hathaway- Copy
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