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"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Favors
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"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Fear
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"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Hatred
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"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Leaders and Leadership
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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Promises
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"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Change
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"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on War
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"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Danger
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"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Punctuality
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"In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice."
Churchill, Winston on Advice
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"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."
Disraeli, Isaac on Romance and Romanticism
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"No age seemed the age of romance to itself."
Carlyle, Thomas on Romance and Romanticism
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"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
Eliot, George on Language
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"Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries."
Eliot, George on Language
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"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
Eliot, George on Fools and Foolishness
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
Eliot, George on Facts
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
Eliot, George on Expectation
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Eliot, George on Evil
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Eliot, George on Disasters
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"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
Eliot, George on Abstinence
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"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
Eliot, George on Appearance
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"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
Eliot, George on Humor
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."
Aristotle on Madness
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"The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love."
Edwardes, Richard on Quarrels
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"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."
Eliot, George on Quarrels
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"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."
Eliot, George on Purpose
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"The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
Eliot, George on Purpose
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I'm female and made my book on 5th December 2007.

