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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

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One should use common words to say uncommon things

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

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No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

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In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

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What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

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Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

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I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

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Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

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