"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets."
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"Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use"
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"I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly."
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"They use everything about the hog except the squeal."
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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense"
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"Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature."
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"The greatest homage to truth is to use it."
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"I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read."
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"Apologies are seldom of any use."
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"Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure."
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"These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes."
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"Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words."
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"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."
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"It is no use trying to sum people up."
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"By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever."
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"The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it."
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"A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him"."
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"I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady."
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"We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do."
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"When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride."
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