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“I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."”

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Author:Carla Gugino

“Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! Then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! He payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?”

Thinking Giving Games Winning Pleasure Study Lovers Please Giving Up My Lover

Author:Eric Rucker Eddison

“Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.”

Study Kings Please Slavery Servant Grants Beggar

Book:The plays of Philip Massinger

Source: The plays of Philip Massinger

“What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.”

Men Dream Night Study Please Delight

Book:Of the nature of things: in six books

Source: Of the nature of things: in six books

“Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.”

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Author:Owen Feltham

“In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike; and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases or offends you, in others, will, mutatis mutandis, engage, disgust, please, or offend others, in you.”

Men Order Passion Study Judging Please Judgment Operations Disgusting Prevailing

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.”

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Author:Alexander Theroux

“I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.”

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Author:Robert Dabney

“If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.”

Ifs Study Please Knowing God Loving God

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...

“I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.”

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.”

Way Should Writing Children Reason Speak Study Mystery Students Taught Please Exciting Sentences Medical Damn Grammar Anatomy

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.”

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Book:The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self

Source: The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self