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• I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, Men, Happy Marriage

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.

  King C. Gillette

  Successful, Principles, Patents

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• In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

  George Eliot

  Children, Memories, Kindness

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• What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Knowledge, Novelty

  "The Mill on the Floss". Easyread Comfort Edition,

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• We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Men, Names

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• Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Taken, Cities, Done

  Michel de Montaigne (2014). “Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection”, p.330, New York Review of Books

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• Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Names, Long

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.219, Vintage

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• Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• He that has done nothing has known nothing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Done, Action

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.166

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• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  Edmund Waller

  Should Have, Half, Improvement

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.150

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• Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

  Andre Malraux

  Stars, Night, Men

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• Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

  Robert Breault

  Love, May, Blind

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• Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

  Hippocrates

  Fall, Home, Exercise

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• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Book, Self, Oneness

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• It just never occurred to me that a school’s policy and student culture could make a big difference in the way I would experience my body while on campus. I didn’t think there was anything to choose about a sexual culture. I’d only ever known the one I grew up in. But it did matter, and in ways I wouldn’t have even predicted.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  School, Thinking, Differences

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• It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

  Richard E. Grant

  Actors, Well Known, Wells

  "Memories of mischief". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.

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• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

  Andre Gide

  Giving Up, Age, Imagine

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• Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sorry, Nice, Science

  1783 Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, 27 Jul.

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• Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Commitment, Intelligent, Past

  "A grand finale" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2002.

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• This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

  Samuel Johnson

  Done, World, Littles

  'Prayers and Meditations' (1785) no. 170 'Against inquisitive and perplexing Thoughts' 12 August 1784

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• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

  Joseph Conrad

  Teacher, Reality, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1433, Book House

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• There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

  Robert Jarvik

  Physicians, Matter, Clear

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyeraki, Maeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Hero, Childhood, Clay

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.113, Vanderbilt University Press

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