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• Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Half, Chance

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.262

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• For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

  David Cannadine

  Details Of Life, Class, Mind

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press

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• Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Book, Thinking

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• It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Drawing, Forever

  Joseph Addison (1812). “The evidences of the Christian religion: with additional discourses on the following subjects, viz: Of God, and his attributes. The power and wisdom of God in the creation. The providence of God. The worship of God. Advantages of revelation above natural reason. Excellency of the Christian institution. Dignity of the Scripture language. Against atheism and infidelity. Against the modern free-thinkers. Immortality of the soul, and a future state. Death and judgment”, p.251

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• It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Passion, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.7

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• In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Men, Gossip

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

  Edith Wharton

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2743, Delphi Classics

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• If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Thinking, Men

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• He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Lying, Philosophy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

  Samuel Johnson

  Character, Kind, Contempt

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper”, p.320

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• To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Guilt, Audacity

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong,
  Be it in music, painting, or in song:
  But this, as well as other faculties,
  Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

  John Armstrong

  Song, Rude, Age

  John Armstrong (1770). “Miscellanies;”, p.129

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• The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

  Helen Keller

  Civilization, Suffering, Citizens

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.80, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

  John Bunyan

  Cities, Stupidity, Intelligence

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.571, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

  William Shenstone

  Order, People, Accomplishment

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.41

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• All habits gather by unseen degrees.

  John Dryden

  Unseen, Habit

  "Wit for Wisdom". Book by Kevin Solway, www.theabsolute.net.

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• a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Family, Home, Men

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• All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.

  Thomas Paine

  Equality, Men, Heaven

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.34, e-artnow

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• We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mean, Circles, Intellectual

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Genius, May

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• Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  School, Elephants, Differences

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3103, Delphi Classics

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• A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

  James Madison

  War, Preparation, Certain

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.325

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• No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

  James Madison

  Men, Sound, Doe

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.216

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• Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.

  Francis Quarles

  Fall, May, Bricks

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.44

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• Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Age, Casting

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