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«Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.»
«There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.»
«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
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«The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.»
«The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.»
«Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.»
«Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy.»
«The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.»
«Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.»
«They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us»