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“So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.”

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian historian, political theorist, and philosopher who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his book 'The Prince,' which delves into the concepts of power, political tactics, and the art of rule. more

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Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.”

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Book:The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

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“A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.”

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Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.”

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