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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal

Virtues, Vices, Disguised

I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.
John Legend

Cool, Nice, Fall

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
Richard Russo

Humor, Writing, Risk

For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently.
Wilbur Smith

Change, Family, Past

I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
Lee Child

Time, Best, Live

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.
Katherine Dunham

Public, Partners, Producers

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
David Antin

Children, Saying, Before

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Experience, Woman, Her

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
William Falconer

Long, Short, Broken

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
Robert Frank

Life, Love, Cannot

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
Malcolm Turnbull

Often, Less, Mirror

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
Todd Gitlin

Experience, Often, Sure

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
Gary Bauer

Faith, Important, Long

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus

Rich, Poor, Unfair

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
Titus Livius

War, Upset, Nowhere

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson Davies

Art, Human, Spirit

People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently.
Julie Bowen

Pretty, Run, Running

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
William Shenstone

Poetry, Felt, Period

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
Arabella Weir

Life, Actor, Plain

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.
Britt Ekland

Business, Father, Quite

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
Murray Gell-Mann

Often, Results, Correct

The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.
Jon Landau

Good, American, Criticism

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'
Brian Ferneyhough

Revolution, Material, Piece

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
Brian Ferneyhough

Reflection, Possible, Quite

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
Brent Scowcroft

Smart, Greatest, Made

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Elias Canetti

Words, Same, Old

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Real, Hard, Give

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Work, Doubt, Absence

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
Evan Bayh

Politics, Become, Word

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
William Falconer

Great, Important, May

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