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• One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Want, Taste

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.117, Penguin

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• Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Distance, Blessed, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

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• I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Ideas, People

  "PW Talks with Charles de Lint". Interview with M.M. Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. October 22, 2001.

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• The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Development, May, Odd

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.7, Hayes Barton Press

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• There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Mistake, Lessons, Might

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1856). “On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged”, p.89

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• I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

  Fabian Perez

  Father, Character, Gambling

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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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• I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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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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• The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Society, World

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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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• Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Ambition, Wish

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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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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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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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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• On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, "We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance"? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, "If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!"

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Party, Rights

  "Grandeur and Misery of Victory". Book by Georges Clemenceau, trans. F. M. Atkinson, p. 279 (quoting Matthias Erzberger), 1930.

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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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• For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

  Craig Claiborne

  Drinking, Wine, Men

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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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• If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Monday, Sunday, Tuesday

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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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• Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.

  Publilius Syrus

  Fame, Knows

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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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• Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Knowledge, Order

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.223

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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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