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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ↗

— Epictetus

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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. ↗

— Mark Twain

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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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