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Familiar Quotations

Contributories

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.–Ethel Percy Andrus

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.–Anonymous

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.–Anonymous

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.–Anonymous

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.–Jacqueline Bisset

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.–John S. Bonnell

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.–Angela Y. Davis

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.–Norman Douglas

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.–Lawrence Durrell

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.–Ulysses S. Grant

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Contributories 1
• Contributories – "Conduce" 2
• Contributories – "Conducive" 2
• Contributories – "Correspondence" 3
• Contributories – "Life" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Contributories 4
• Contributories – "Affection" 18
• Contributories – "Afterwards" 19
• Contributories – "Air" 19
• Contributories – "America" 20
• Contributories – "Appear" 21
• Contributories – "Art" 21
• Contributories – "Article" 22
• Contributories – "Audience" 23
• Contributories – "Beginning" 24
• Contributories – "Being" 25
• Contributories – "Believe" 26
• Contributories – "Best" 27
• Contributories – "Beyond" 28
• Contributories – "Book" 29
• Contributories – "Building" 30
• Contributories – "Called" 30
• Contributories – "Care" 32
• Contributories – "Cases" 32
• Contributories – "Cause" 33
• Contributories – "Century" 35
• Contributories – "Changes" 36
• Contributories – "Chiefly" 37
• Contributories – "Children" 37
• Contributories – "Christian" 38
• Contributories – "Churches" 38
• Contributories – "Circumstance" 40
• Contributories – "Cities" 42
• Contributories – "Citizens" 42
• Contributories – "Class" 43
• Contributories – "Commanding" 44
• Contributories – "Community" 44
• Contributories – "Conditions" 45
• Contributories – "Conduce" 46
• Contributories – "Conducive" 48
• Contributories – "Constantly" 48
• Contributories – "Conversation" 49
• Contributories – "Country" 49
• Contributories – "Day" 50
• Contributories – "Details" 52
• Contributories – "Development" 52
• Contributories – "Difference" 53
• Contributories – "Done" 53
• Contributories – "Doubt" 54
• Contributories – "Dress" 56
• Contributories – "Duty" 56
• Contributories – "Early" 57
• Contributories – "Easy" 58
• Contributories – "Editors" 59
• Contributories – "Effects" 60
• Contributories – "Element" 62
• Contributories – "End" 62
• Contributories – "England" 63
• Contributories – "English" 64
• Contributories – "Evening" 65
• Contributories – "Events" 65
• Contributories – "Everything" 66
• Contributories – "Example" 67
• Contributories – "Experiments" 67
• Contributories – "Far" 68
• Contributories – "Fear" 69
• Contributories – "Felt" 70
• Contributories – "Few" 71
• Contributories – "Follow" 71
• Contributories – "Formed" 72
• Contributories – "Fortune" 74
• Contributories – "Found" 75
• Contributories – "French" 76
• Contributories – "Friends" 76
• Contributories – "Gentleman" 78
• Contributories – "George" 80
• Contributories – "Germany" 86
• Contributories – "Gladly" 86
• Contributories – "Glory" 87
• Contributories – "Go" 88
• Contributories – "Great" 88
• Contributories – "Hands" 93
• Contributories – "Happy" 95
• Contributories – "Having" 96
• Contributories – "Head" 97
• Contributories – "Help" 98
• Contributories – "History" 99
• Contributories – "Hoped" 99
• Contributories – "House" 100
• Contributories – "Human" 101
• Contributories – "Idea" 102
• Contributories – "Imagination" 102
• Contributories – "Increase" 103
• Contributories – "Individual" 104
• Contributories – "Intellectual" 105
• Contributories – "Interesting" 106
• Contributories – "Journal" 108
• Contributories – "Judge" 108
• Contributories – "Keep" 109
• Contributories – "Kind" 110
• Contributories – "Knowledge" 112
• Contributories – "Lady" 112
• Contributories – "Laid" 113
• Contributories – "Land" 113
• Contributories – "Larger" 114
• Contributories – "Law" 115
• Contributories – "Led" 116
• Contributories – "Letter" 116
• Contributories – "Literary" 118
• Contributories – "Little" 119
• Contributories – "Lived" 123
• Contributories – "Looked" 124
• Contributories – "Love" 125
• Contributories – "Magazine" 126
• Contributories – "Made" 126
• Contributories – "Men" 133
• Contributories – "Manner" 139
• Contributories – "Materials" 140
• Contributories – "Means" 142
• Contributories – "Meeting" 143
• Contributories – "Member" 144
• Contributories – "Miss" 145
• Contributories – "Money" 146
• Contributories – "Months" 147
• Contributories – "Name" 148
• Contributories – "National" 149
• Contributories – "Natural" 150
• Contributories – "Need" 152
• Contributories – "New" 153
• Contributories – "Newspaper" 155
• Contributories – "Note" 156
• Contributories – "Nothing" 157
• Contributories – "Number" 158
• Contributories – "Object" 159
• Contributories – "Observed" 159
• Contributories – "Offer" 160
• Contributories – "Office" 161
• Contributories – "Old" 161
• Contributories – "Once" 162
• Contributories – "Opened" 163
• Contributories – "Order" 164
• Contributories – "Others" 164
• Contributories – "Paper" 165
• Contributories – "Party" 166
• Contributories – "Pays" 170
• Contributories – "People" 171
• Contributories – "Perfection" 172
• Contributories – "Period" 173
• Contributories – "Persons" 174
• Contributories – "Pleasure" 175
• Contributories – "Poems" 176
• Contributories – "Poets" 176
• Contributories – "Political" 177
• Contributories – "Poor" 178
• Contributories – "Population" 179
• Contributories – "Position" 179
• Contributories – "Possibly" 180
• Contributories – "Power" 181
• Contributories – "Present" 183
• Contributories – "Pride" 184
• Contributories – "Principle" 185
• Contributories – "Produced" 185
• Contributories – "Property" 186
• Contributories – "Public" 186
• Contributories – "Purpose" 189
• Contributories – "Qualities" 189
• Contributories – "Question" 190
• Contributories – "Read" 191
• Contributories – "Reason" 192
• Contributories – "Religious" 192
• Contributories – "Remained" 193
• Contributories – "Remembered" 194
• Contributories – "Rest" 195
• Contributories – "Results" 195
• Contributories – "School" 196
• Contributories – "Second" 197
• Contributories – "Secret" 197
• Contributories – "Sending" 197
• Contributories – "Served" 198
• Contributories – "Shall" 199
• Contributories – "Shared" 200
• Contributories – "Showered" 202
• Contributories – "Silent" 203
• Contributories – "Single" 203
• Contributories – "Sir" 204
• Contributories – "Sketch" 205
• Contributories – "Society" 205
• Contributories – "Soon" 206
• Contributories – "Spoke" 206
• Contributories – "Specific" 207
• Contributories – "Speech" 208
• Contributories – "Spirits" 208
• Contributories – "Stand" 209
• Contributories – "State" 210
• Contributories – "Story" 211
• Contributories – "Study" 211
• Contributories – "Succession" 212
• Contributories – "Things" 214
• Contributories – "Think" 215
• Contributories – "Thus" 217
• Contributories – "Times" 219
• Contributories – "True" 220
• Contributories – "United" 221
• Contributories – "Valuable" 221
• Contributories – "Various" 222
• Contributories – "Village" 223
• Contributories – "Want" 224
• Contributories – "War" 225
• Contributories – "Way" 226
• Contributories – "Wife" 228
• Contributories – "Wished" 228
• Contributories – "Woman's" 229
• Contributories – "Word" 230
• Contributories – "Work" 231
• Contributories – "World" 234
• Contributories – "Wrote" 235
• Contributories – "Years" 237
• Contributories – "Young" 239
• Nonfiction Usage 241
• Bibliographic Usage 241
• Encyclopedic Usage 242
• Lexicographic Usage 460
• Index 594