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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

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And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show. ↗

— James MacArthur

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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices. ↗

— John Henry Mackay

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It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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