Quotations Page 'C'

So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell grew darker at their frown.

- Milton, Paradise Lost -

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A house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

- A.Long, Bellads of True Wisdom -

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Most of our comforts grow up between our crosses.It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

- De Foe -

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A true bred merchant is the best gentleman of the nation.

- De Foe, Robinson Crusoe -

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Commerce is the equializer of the the wealth of nations.

- Gladstone -

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Common sense is in spite of , not the result of education.

- Victor Hugo -

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Common sense is not so common.

- Votaire -

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Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon.

- Toron Edward -

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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for its better to be alone than in a bad company.

- George Washington, Rules of Civility -

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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

- Izaak Walton -

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Hyperion to a satyr, Thersites to Hercules, mud to marble, dunghil to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengale tiger, a whinning pupy to a roaring lion.

- James G Blaine -

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The superiority of some men is merely local - They are great because their associates are little.

- Johnson -

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Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide fault I see :That mercy I do others show,That mercy show to me.

- Pope, Universal Prayer -

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

- Byron -

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A competence is vital to content;Much wealth is corpulence, if not disease.

- Young, Night Thoughts -

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The wheel that squeaks the loudestis the one that gets the grease.

- Josh Billings, The Kicker -

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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

- Jane Austen -

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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

- Swift -

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I am a love-lorn creature.....and everything goes contrary with me.

- Dickens, David Copperfield -

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