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«Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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Books
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Best Book, favorites
«If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.»
«It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it.»
«My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.»
«I have a song that's called 'Me, Myself and I,' which is one of my favorites, and it basically talks about a girl who the guy's not right for her and he's cheating and whatever.»
«My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.»
«There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.»
«REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assure, dirge, favorites, Graves, minor, providing, Requiem, The graves, varied
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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«Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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adulation, favorites, lacks, largeness, partialities, partiality
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