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• Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Doe, Safe, Pay

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.

  William Zinsser

  Thinking, Ends, Prepositions

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• Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.

  Tristan Wilds

  Self, Wish, Relax

  "Meet 90201's Tristan Wilds!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. October 26, 2011.

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• You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

  William Morris Hunt

  Example, Masters, Fine

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

  J. William Fulbright

  Miscarriage, Agreement, Differences

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• What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

  Devil, Doe, Plot

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• I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, People, Kind

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• Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

  Socrates

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Married

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• Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cost, Pay, Thee

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics

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• Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability—I won’t say permanence, but durability—things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.

  James Krenov

  Life, Beautiful, Children

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• To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that when morning comes and to-morrow is to-day, we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently; careless or impatient, and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned overnight.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Morning, Night, Feelings

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• I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

  Socrates

  Inspiration, Understanding, Talent

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• It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Needs, Adam

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Giving, Four

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• It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

  John Muir

  People, Hot, Enthusiasm

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.269, e-artnow

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• To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

  Mark Twain

  World, Authority, Enormous

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.56, Createspace Independent Pub

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• It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

  Reid Hoffman

  Nice, Impact, World Suffering

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• If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

  Willa Cather

  Giving, Noble, Achieve

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

  John Adams

  Children, War, Agriculture

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• Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

  Rod Dreher

  Sex, Good Life, Party

  Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.12, Crown

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• Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

  Stacy Aumonier

  Blue, Tradition, Thunderbolts

  Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”

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• It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends. But the greater part are so disposed that the words which enter by one ear do incontinently go out of the other, and begin again by following the custom. The best teacher one can have is necessity.

  Francois de la Noue

  Teacher, Writing, Men

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• But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

  Susan Glaspell

  Brave, Desert, Gone

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• To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.

  Edna Ferber

  Unique, Magic, Once In A Lifetime

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.5, Vintage

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• Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Desire, Pieces

  Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.100

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