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After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ↗

— Joseph Howe

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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

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Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. ↗

— Charles Tennyson Turner

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ↗

— John Locke

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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ↗

— Voltaire

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