"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright

People, Gentleman, Law, Uncertainty

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"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

People, Love, Happiness, Truth, Power

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

People, Kindness, Remember, Touch

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

People, First

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

People, Company

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

People, Feeling, Opera

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

People, Belief, Blind

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

People, Wants, Dreams, Action

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."

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"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it."

God

"'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."

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"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."

Benefit

"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."

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"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."

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"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

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"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."

"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it."

"'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."

"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."

"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."

"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."

"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."

"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me."

"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day."

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