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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Walter Scott

Escape, Faces, Charmed

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan

Love, Truth, Beautiful

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
George Herbert

True, Nothing, Lie

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George Santayana

Experience, Seems, Lead

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana

Age, Old, Pride

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana

Nature, Power, Him

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller

Character, Important, Young

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Lord Chesterfield

Find, Possible, Persevere

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide

Life, Often, Actions

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide

Beautiful, Reason, Madness

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre Gide

Perhaps, Gifted, Natures

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Joseph Addison

Keep, Expect, Prudent

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison

Love, Long, Marriages

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer

Free, Majority, Feels

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert

Themselves, Create, Profound

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Stendhal

Earth, Present, Race

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
Mason Cooley

Forgotten, Ruined

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond Tutu

Peace, Courage, Hate

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
Michael Gove

Time, Teacher, Important

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras

Men, Loved, Deceived

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler

Life, Family, Patient

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt

Person, Regret, Pleasure

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
William Hazlitt

Learned, Often, Minded

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
John C. Calhoun

Government, Majority, Interests

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
Tyra Banks

Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciate

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
David Attenborough

Time, Single, Put

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling

Everyone, Support, Research

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Good, Dating, Girl

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Susan Sontag

Life, Important, Creative

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne

Art, Artist, Himself

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