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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honore de Balzac

Tired, Pleasure, Genuine

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
e. e. cummings

Made, Matter, Making

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Debt, Willing, Shows

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death, Human, State

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Lawrence Durrell

Time, Loneliness, Night

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wish, Dangerous, Fault

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cannot, Forgive, Often

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli

Democracy, Weary, Statesmen

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust

Love, Woman, Another

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald

Trust, Few, Equal

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides

God, Mad, Makes

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Love, Faith, Great

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon

Good, Words, Him

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron

Yourself, Care, Nothing

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Crisis, Friend

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Great, Thought

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume

Happy, Excellent, Temper

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
Mignon McLaughlin

Money, Won, Ourselves

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great

Him, Whole, Tomb

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
Samora Machel

Medical, Care, Rich

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Kurt Vonnegut

May, Late, Afternoon

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. Rowling

Parents, College, Both

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude

Death, Wild, Fellow

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Anton Chekhov

Happy, Everything, Times

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler

Death, Lord, Less

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Samuel Butler

Once, Few, Since

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson

Deceived, Inclined

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