Confucius
Philosopher
"The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct."
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Earnest
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Charles Dickens
Novelist
"A word in earnest is as good as a speech."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."
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"The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest."
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"Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy."
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"Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead."
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"The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest."
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"History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons"
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"I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible."
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"Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest."
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