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A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Desiderius Erasmus
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Ambrose Bierce
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
Phil Lesh
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Anna Neagle
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
Mary Douglas
For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.
Paul Weyrich
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenaeus
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.
Marguerite Moreau
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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