John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."
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Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance."
Prince Philip
Royalty
"They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays."
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"So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'."
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"War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time."
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"There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent."
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"Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth."
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"A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working."
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"Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst."
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"This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been."
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"Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance."
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"My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk."
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"Political analysts are saying that as a candidate, Donald Trump is 'a totally unqualified nuisance.' In other words, he is a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination."
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"Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance."
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"Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves."
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"Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl."
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"The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism."
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"There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself."
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"Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance."
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"If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world."
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"Cleverness becomes a public nuisance."
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"Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life."
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"Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order."
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