#asil

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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To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

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I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

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The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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