Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.
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The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
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The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.
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Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.
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Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said that if he had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would cheerfully choose to live in a land with newspapers (even not very good ones) and no government.
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i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live
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It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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And every dew-drop paints a bow.
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The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.
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Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.
