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• Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

  Will Rogers

  People, Causes, Remember

  Will Rogers (1974). “The Illiterate Digest”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Political analysts are saying that as a candidate, Donald Trump is 'a totally unqualified nuisance.' In other words, he is a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination.

  Conan O'Brien

  Political, Unqualified, Nominations

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• Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
  Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
  No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
  Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

  Robert Frost

  War, Giving, Size

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Entitlement, Duty, Feels

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• Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order.

  Gunter Brus

  Order, White, Behaviour

  "Gunter Brus: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber (p. 14), 2005.

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• Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

  Sally Stanford

  Fall, Men, Romance

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• You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

  Rumer Godden

  Family, Friends, Family Friends

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• I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

  Hortense Calisher

  Poetry, Solace, Oneself

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher”, p.629, Open Road Media

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• My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mind, Inability, Baths

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Names, Firsts, Trouble

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.2311, Delphi Classics

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• Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

  Fay Weldon

  Publishers, Ifs

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• Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Military, Should Have, Law

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

  Gertrude Stein

  Family, Doubt, Shadow

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.148, Random House

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• It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as to when the nuisance is abated.

  Jack McConnell

  Lines, Might, Clear

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• Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

  David D. Burns

  Anxiety, Uptight, News

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• Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Blessing, Men

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.148, Zondervan

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• Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Party, Journey, Next

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

  Colleen McCullough

  Sleep, Blessing, Echoes

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.365, Head of Zeus

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• This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance.

  Yun Kouga

  Skins

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• Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to go in to see people, for fear I was making a nuisance of myself. But now I was inspired! I resolved right then to dedicate the rest of my selling career to this principle: finding out what people want, and helping them get it.

  Frank Bettger

  Careers, People, Principles

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• At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

  Tom Holt

  Ninety Nine, Race, Given

  tom holt (1991). “flying dutch”

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• They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

  Prince Philip

  Running, Baths, Bathroom

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• When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.

  Sarah Vowell

  Men, Excellence, Experts

  Sarah Vowell (2002). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Made, Relation, Property

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.410, Open Road Media

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• Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

  Charles Dickens

  Perfect, Religion, Atheism

  Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mamie Dickens, Laurence Hutton (1893). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Letters and Speeches”

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