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«Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
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«I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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bore, bores, contradict, Great A, principle, prove, surely
«Never contradict anybody.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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History,
Reading
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confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, contradict, Histories, take for, take for granted, weigh
«I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict»
«People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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«It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what h»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«Noises at dawn will bring / Freedom for some, but not this peace / No bird can contradict.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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bird, contradict, dawn, For some, noises, Peace and Freedom