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Letter "G" » general rule
«A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself»
«Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.»
«A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa»
«In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
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Writing
| Keywords:
composing, every other, General Idea, general rule, General will, pen, vigor, writing style
«As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
general, general rule, information, most successful, rule
«Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abstract, confesses, exertion, general rule, practically
«I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
concluded, distinctly, general rule
«As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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abstain, abstaining, abstains, attacks, general, general rule, offer, properly, provoked, provokes, reports, report it, wishing
«There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.»
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