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• The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Loss, Degrees

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.628

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• I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dog, Eye, Play

  "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Selfishness, Want, Sensitive

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• Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Giving, Doe, Heal

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wrinkles, Together, Made

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• The absent feel and fear every ill.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Absence, Feels, Absent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.231

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• Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Stones, Pitcher

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.466

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• For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Vanity, Handsome, Imagine

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• Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  May, Wealth, Masters

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.12

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• Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

  Josh Billings

  Running, Disposition

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• Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Exercise, Numbers

  Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

  H. G. Wells

  Promise, May, Firsts

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• Therefore, since the world has still
  Much good, but much less good than ill

  A. E. Housman

  Evil, World, Goodness

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would be worth more in dollars and cents to have the goodwill of the working force than of those on the outside. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the average working force is capable of increasing its production 25% or more whenever the workers fell so inclined. Workers animated by ill will cannot possibly give results equal to those of workers animated by goodwill. The tragic fact appears to be that a tremendous number of working forces are not so animated.

  B. C. Forbes

  Ill Will, Average, Numbers

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• It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Gossip, Speak, Easy

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• Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Faults, Virtue

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.25

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• I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

  Philip Sidney

  Likes, Virtue, Creatures

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.30, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Husband, Air, Practice

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• It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Christmas, Taken, People

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• Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.50

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• When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

  Rumi

  Complaining, Speak, Temper

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• The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heaven, Records, Moments

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• We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Talking, Years, Interviews

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• We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Hearing, Stills

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• Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.

  George Berkeley

  Education, Wise, Fashion

  "A Discourse Addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority: Occasioned by the Enormous License, and Irreligion of the Times". Book by George Berkeley, 1738.

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