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106 Quotations with Properly.

1. No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself indep ...
Charles De Gaulle

2. The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy ofte ...
Hubert H. Humphrey

3. We achieve "active" mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibil ...
Thomas Szasz

4. Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means for ...
Mark Twain

5. If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human ra ...
Mark Twain

6. A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, ma ...
Mark Twain

7. Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things tha ...
Paul Valery

8. HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
Ambrose Bierce

9. IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
Ambrose Bierce

10. OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
Ambrose Bierce

11. PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession ...
Ambrose Bierce

12. SUFFRAGE, n. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage ( ...
Ambrose Bierce

13. UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touc ...
Ambrose Bierce

14. There is properly no history; only biogr ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. ...
Aldous Huxley

16. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than sta ...
Thomas Jefferson

17. The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed ...
Benjamin Disraeli

18. I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours whic ...
Charles Lamb

19. For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by t ...
Charles Lamb

20. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which t ...
Samuel Johnson


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