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• I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dies

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.181, Library of America

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• That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Guilty, Conversation

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• The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Anger, Passion, Men

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• If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, School, Prison

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.262, Da Capo Press

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• Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Money, Men, Promise

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

  Juvenal

  Hope, Learning, Pay The Price

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 434-37, Satires, VII, line 157, 1922.

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• The Four Rules of Life:
  1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

  Bill Vaughan

  Upset, Attention, Four

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• Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

  William Feather

  Indifference, Penalties, Inaction

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• As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them.

  Henry Fielding

  Mean, People, Bird

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• The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes payable at a distant day. The truest conclusion in both cases is, that neither intend or will be able to pay. And as the latter most probably intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Numbers, Design

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.3805, Delphi Classics

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• Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

  Henry Fielding

  Country, War, Should

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• The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

  Thomas Paine

  Home, Government, People

  Thomas Paine (1835). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.430

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• When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Regret, Grief, Loss

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• God grant me grace my prayers to say:
  O God! preserve my mother dear,
  In strength and health for many a year;
  And O! preserve my father too,
  And may I pay him reverence due;
  And may I my best thoughts employ
  To be my parents' hope and joy;
  And O! preserve my brothers both
  From evil doings, and from sloth,
  And may we always love each other,
  Our friends, our father, and our mother,
  And still, O Lord, to me impart
  An innocent and grateful heart,
  That after my last sleep I may
  Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Brother, Prayer

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1880). “The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”

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• The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

  Ellen Goodman

  Time, Believe, Loss

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

  Blaise Pascal

  Gratitude, Love Is, Allies

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• When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Blessing, Men, Burden

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896

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• I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in the form of supertax ... our incomes being added together we are liable for supertax which we are refusing to pay on the grounds of morality as I consider in a Christian country it is an immoral and outrageous act to tax me because I am living in Holy matrimony instead of as my husband's mistress.

  Marie Stopes

  Christian, Country, Husband

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• A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Clever, Husband

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• Pioneering don't pay.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Exploration, Pioneering

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
  And give to fame what we to nature owe.

  Homer

  Giving, Fame

  Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.352

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• Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

  Joseph Hall

  Believe, Giving, Looks

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• It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

  Norman Douglas

  Rude, Half

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

  Margaret Mead

  Contentment, Can Not

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