Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Character Quotes, Two Quotes

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

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The two inaugurations were different. The first inauguration I was thinking to myself, "Let's make sure I don't screw this up." I think there is - people always talk about how cool I am. I don't care how cool you are.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Two Quotes , History Quotes

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.

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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Two Quotes , Anxiety Quotes

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

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There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

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I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

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Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Two Quotes , World Quotes

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Names Quotes , Two Quotes

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

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