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«Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.»
«If God does not exist, then everything is permitted»
«Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth»
«It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may oft»
«If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.»
Author: Calvin Coolidge (President) | About: Failure | Keywords: discourage, permitted
«It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin»
«It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship»
«Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.»
«It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us»
«It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.»

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