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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

True, Another, Spirit

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
Lysander Spooner

Money, Men, Political

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
Jonathan Edwards

Happiness, God, Creature

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein

Poetry, Seen, Dictionary

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond

Happiness, Giving, Others

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Country, Service

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton

True, Vision, Manner

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith

Rich, Greater, Enjoyment

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Mikhail Bakunin

Good, Freedom, Human

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau

True, Seeing, Habit

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Love, Feeling, Give

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead

General, Series, Tradition

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera

Respect, Attitude, True

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere

Great, Giving, Less

Reality simply consists of different points of view.
Margaret Atwood

Reality, Different, Simply

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
John Jay Chapman

Love, Hate, Forget

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, Best, Knowledge

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
Ignatius Loyola

Life, Love, God

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne

Quiet, Nor, Number

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
Calvin Klein

Shoes, Clothes, Brothers

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt

Beauty, Truth, Theatre

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Quentin Crisp

Health, Same, Neighbors

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener

Character, Third, Tries

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
James J. Gibson

Value, Meaning, Affords

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
Antonio Gramsci

Strength, Knowledge, Against

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Success, Time, Getting

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

Friendship, Friends, Number

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce

Patriotism, Strong, Country

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Edward Gibbon

Almost, Pathetic, Events

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Life, Genius, Gift

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