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«Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world»
«Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men»
«In lieu of creativity, there is an undue emphasis on sexuality»
«There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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Patience
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Advances, deliberately, haste, honors, Long To, prepares, undue
«History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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History
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breathe, breathing time, deliverer, of our own, pressures, undue
«My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
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airports, Consenting Adults, curtail, department, department store, Department Stores, exchanges, hotel, in private, lobby, lobbying, public park, stores, undue
«Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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Pride,
Shame
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achieves, attaches, automatically, esteemed, estimation, estimations, highly, humiliation, humiliations, inferior, involved, losing, rating, ratings, sets, shame, status, superiority, undue
«Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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affairs, depression, depressions, elation, prosperity, stable, stables, the Depression, undue
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