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«I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
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Sermons
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«Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
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«Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man»
«Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.»
«Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor»
«In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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«But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.»
«If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.»
«If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.»
«I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.»
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