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«Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
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«I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.»
«I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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bore, bores, contradict, Great A, principle, prove, surely
«Never contradict anybody.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.»
«Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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«I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict»
«People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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consistent, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, honestly, rarely, tried and true
«It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what h»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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contradict, contribute, describes, differs, likewise, opposition, raises, resentment, soften
«Noises at dawn will bring / Freedom for some, but not this peace / No bird can contradict.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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bird, contradict, dawn, For some, noises, Peace and Freedom
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