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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru Nanak
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
Jessica Savitch
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
Jack Henry Abbott
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler
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