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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. ↗

— Socrates

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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. ↗

— George Steiner

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We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

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Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not. ↗

— Tertullian

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I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. ↗

— William Collins

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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ↗

— Plutarch

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But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

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