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«All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example»
«If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder»
«First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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«It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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aided, faculties, studied, the British
«I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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alas, end to end, jurisprudence, keen, studied, theology
«I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot»
«By this time he has tested his first plough, / And studied his last chapter of St John.»
«But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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assail, assailed, assailing, assails, Body The, caution, diseases, equal pay, estimable, exercises, human body, physician, properties, remedies, studied, the human body
«It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
benevolent, exaggerate, exaggerates, exaggerating, examination, excessive, flame, illuminate, illuminated, required, resort, resort to, searching, studied, The Flame, The Force
«If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.»
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