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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
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"Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity."
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"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."
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"I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more."
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"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
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"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."
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"But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days."
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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."
Wealth
"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."
Gallantry
"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
Peace
"Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same."
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"Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts."
Change
"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."
Quality
"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing."
History
"Love is often the fruit of marriage."
Love
"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
Right
"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
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