“ Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black. ”
- John Selden- Copy
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“ Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ I look for an interesting and oftentimes, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Thos two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay… ”
- William Baldwin- Copy
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“ Every letter has its own peculiar air, which air is very much hurt if the tune is not rightly pitched; for instance, if a tune is set on A natural, and in pitching the tune, you set it a tone too low, you transpose the key into G, which is perhaps quite different from the intention of the author, and oftentimes very destructive to the harmony. ”
- William Billings- Copy
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