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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

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All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. ↗

— Georges Pompidou

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. ↗

— John Acton

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