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«Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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Heart,
Understanding
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LED, oftener, understandings
«It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.»
«And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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all the same, beasts, darlings, ever so, go down, go down on, hump, humped, inclination, knees, oftener, set down, thankful, The Field, the Hump
«Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.»
«Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.»
«He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.»
«I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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natural ability, oftener
«I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.»