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«Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.»
«'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny»
«Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often, if not always, expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet»
«Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.»
«Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.»
«If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.»
«Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.»
«Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it»
«An angel; or, if not,An earthly paragon.»
«And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.»