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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

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Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

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I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?

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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

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Wonder is not precisely knowing.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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