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«I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
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«Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.»
«Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man»
«Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor»
Author: Herman Melville
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«In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.»
Author: Plato
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«But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.»
«Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly»
«Not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms - capital thing!»
«I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.»
«He that knows least commonly presumes most»