John Philpot Quotes

#1. The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

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#2. My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

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#3. It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

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#4. I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

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#5. And to a place I come where nothing shines.

Dante Alighieri

#6. The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

Carlos Ghosn

#7. The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

William Butler Yeats

#8. But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

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#9. Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

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#10. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

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#11. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.

Chelsey Philpot

#12. Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

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#13. His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

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#14. Temperamentally unfitted for romance

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

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#16. In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

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#17. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

#18. Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

Gerard Way

#19. To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

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