Arnold Lobel Quotes
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
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In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.
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Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
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Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.
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From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
