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«Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.»
Author: Barbara Stanwyck
(Actress)
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egotism, just in case, mistaken, nonentities, nonentity
«A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.»
«Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
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credence, disgrace, iconography, individualism, individualist, individualists, instances, lend, maverick, mavericks, misfit, misfits, mistaken, ostracism, painted, publicized, rigorous, rugged, rugged individualism, rugged individualist, sore, spoilsport, thumb
«He that speaks much, is much mistaken»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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mistaken, speaks
«He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
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benevolent, duck, held, merciful, mistaken, rain, shower, showered, showering, umbrella, umbrellas
«Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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mistaken
«A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
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calling, journalist, mistaken
«Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.»
«Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Books
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appropriation, appropriations, buying, contents, mistaken, purchase, rule book, The Purchase
«After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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after all, beginning, Eve, garden, inside, in the beginning, mistaken, outside, these, The Beginning, The Garden, years
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