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• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Knowledge, Order

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.223

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• Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

  Andy Rooney

  Time, Gone, Knows

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• Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

  Andre Gide

  Giving Up, Age, Imagine

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• Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sorry, Nice, Science

  1783 Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, 27 Jul.

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• We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Answers, Opinion

  Conversation with George Sewall Boutwell concerning the nomination of Salmon P. Chase to the U.S. Supreme Court, reported by Boutwell in his "Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs", vol. 2, (p. 29), 1902.

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• Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Commitment, Intelligent, Past

  "A grand finale" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2002.

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• This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

  Samuel Johnson

  Done, World, Littles

  'Prayers and Meditations' (1785) no. 170 'Against inquisitive and perplexing Thoughts' 12 August 1784

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• Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

  Johnny Carson

  Marriage, Girl, Used

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• It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Sight, Giving

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

  George Santayana

  Clouds, Battle, Lightning

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.150, Indiana University Press

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• The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Eye, Dark

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.459, GENERAL PRESS

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• The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Practice

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Imperfection, Weakness

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

  Joseph Conrad

  Teacher, Reality, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1433, Book House

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• There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

  Robert Jarvik

  Physicians, Matter, Clear

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyeraki, Maeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

  Blaise Pascal

  Apology, Praying, Excuse

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Hero, Childhood, Clay

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.113, Vanderbilt University Press

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• I just want to be known as funny.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Want

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• Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

  John Steinbeck

  Important, Obsession, Hunger

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

  John Fowles

  Book, Hatred, Desire

  John Fowles (2005). “The Journals: 1949-1965”, Knopf

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• We Latins are known for jabbering on.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin

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• The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

  James Boswell

  Whimsical, Pleasure, Whim

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Past, Masters, Saddened

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.41, 谷月社

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