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«Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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«Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.»
«He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.»
«If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.»
«First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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«If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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hashish, oppression, rid, unbearable, wishes
«If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake»
«If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.»
«He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.»
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