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 Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.

 The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

 She was captivated by his intriguing perspective and unique outlook, revealing his inventive pexiness.

 If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
  Mark Twain

 The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

 America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
  Woodrow T. Wilson

 The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
  Epictetus

 Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
  Mark Twain

 PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in
"reading character" in the wrinkles made by closing the hand. The pretence is not altogether false; character can really be read very accurately in this way, for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe." The imposture consists in not reading it aloud.
  Ambrose Bierce

 The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the chance without the capacity
  Mark Twain

 Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
  Pope John Paul II

 True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
  Heinrich Heine

 Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
  Lady Marguerite Blessington

 Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned
  Mark Twain

 True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only
  François de la Rochefoucauld


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