#observed

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? ↗

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#author #ever #more #much #observed

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah. ↗

— Mark Morris

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We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. ↗

— William Whewell

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I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures. ↗

— George Crumb

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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#every #greatest #mankind #modern #morality

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. ↗

— Brad Holland

#fiction #intellectuals #led #many #non-fiction

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. ↗

— Judith Wright

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