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• Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

  Plutarch

  Encouragement, Children, Mean

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• I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

  Rafe Spall

  Father, Becoming, Fats

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• If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

  Melissa McBride

  Answers, Scripts, Bother

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• I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

  Hattie Morahan

  Morning, Wall, Sleep

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• Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

  Francois Arnaud

  Forever, Acting, Roles

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• I have often asked myself if I would have worked as hard if I was as ill as Steve Jobs. My answer is that my wife most likely would not have let me work, and I would have stayed home. But I am not Steve Jobs.

  Terry Gou

  Jobs, Home, Wife

  "Foxconn CEO: I Wouldn't Be Working As Hard As Steve Jobs If I Was As Ill As Him" by Paul Denlinger, www.businessinsider.com. June 09, 2011.

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• Most people dont know that Ill eat anything spicy. A little extra kick is always a good thing!

  Kelli Berglund

  People, Littles, Good Things

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• The only person Ill marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

  Max Beesley

  Believe, Ego, Bigs

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• The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

  Horace

  Eye, Men, People

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• He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

  Horace

  Men, Speak, Failing

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• This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
  For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
  Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
  And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

  Sir John Davies

  Skills, Knowing, Ears

  Sir John Davies (1759). “The Original, Nature and Immortality of the Soul, a Poem. With an Introduction Concerning Human Knowledge ... The Fourth Edition, Corrected. With an Account of the Author's Life and Writings”, p.82

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• Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Vanity, Envy, Feelings

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• Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

  Martial

  Laughing

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• The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
  [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]

  Tacitus

  Powerful, Remembrance, Pleasantries

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• Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

  Jonathan Swift

  Flattery, Manners, Instance

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625

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• A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

  Jonathan Swift

  Romance, Ingredients, Degenerates

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.582

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• Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.621

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• There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vanity, Skills, Vices

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

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• The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

  Ovid

  Mind, Suffering, Ease

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• If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Family, Home, House

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• Except wind stands as it never stood
  It is an ill wind turns none to good.

  Thomas Tusser

  Wind, Turns

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.39

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• They first condemn that first advised the ill.

  John Dryden

  Advice, Firsts

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.98

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• Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

  John Dryden

  Men, Light, Heaven

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• If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

  John Dryden

  Art, Vices, Slave

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• The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

  John Dryden

  Heaven, Free Will, Endure

  John Dryden (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.162

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