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- If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. (Luther Burbank) [more/attention]
- Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. (Edmund Burke) [etiquette/more/etiquette]
- Our patience will achieve more than our force. (Edmund Burke) [patience/willpower/more]
- Patience will achieve more than force. (Edmund Burke) [patience/willpower/more]
- To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. (Edmund Burke) [more/love/men]
- Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners. (Edmund Burke) [america/day/more/men]
- Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. (Robert Burns) [heavy/more]
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. (Samuel Butler) [more]
- There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. (Samuel Butler) [more]
- The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. (Samuel Butler) [more]
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. (Samuel Butler) [people/care/more/being]
- There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule. (Samuel Butler) [life/more/exception]
- I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. (Samuel Butler) [people/more]
- Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. (Samuel Butler) [men/more]
- Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. (Samuel Butler) [more/willpower]
- A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. (Samuel Butler) [virtue/gold/more]
- Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. (Eileen Caddy) [more/joy/laughter]
- Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do. (Sarah Caldwell) [position/more]
- Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. (Thomas Campion) [more]
- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. (Albert Camus) [government/conscience/more]
- More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. (Albert Camus) [more/more/men]
- More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other. (Albert Camus) [more/more/revolution]
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. (Albert Camus) [more/respect/fear]
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. (Albert Camus) [top/mountain/more/punishment]
- At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. (Albert Camus) [beauty/sky/more/absurd]
- The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. (Elias Canetti) [position/think/more]
- There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. (Elias Canetti) [more/strange]
- You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. (Al Capone) [more]
- I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. (Truman Capote) [more]
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. (Thomas Carlyle) [power/willpower/more/time]
- What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? (Thomas Carlyle) [facts/more]
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