“ Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. ”
- William Allen White- Copy
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“ The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope. ”
- Max Gunther- Copy
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“ You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ The fact that slaughter not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms. ”
- Carl von Clausewitz- Copy
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“ The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death. ”
- Cicero- Copy
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“ Horns to bulls wise Nature lends;Horses she with hoofs defends;Hares with nimble feet relieves;Dreadful teeth to lions gives;Fishes learn through streams to slide;Birds through yielding air to glide;Men with courage she supplies;But to women these denies… ”
- Anacreon- Copy
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“ A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A book that furnishes no quotations is no book — it is a plaything. ”
- Thomas Love Peacock- Copy
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“ A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. ”
- Claude Bernard- Copy
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“ Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
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“ Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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