#surely

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.


Francis Bacon


#commonly #fairer #foulest #life #much

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.


Augustine Birrell


#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.


Emily Bronte


#cannot #everybody #existence #express #i

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#believe #beneficial #disagreeable #economic #effects

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.


Samuel Johnson


#forced #help #life #long #long life

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.


Molly Ivins


#because #country #ever #freedom #fun

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.


Stephanie Tubbs Jones


#countless #did #halls #here #hours

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.


Erica Jong


#dash #dead #disguise #famous #feline

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!


Barbara Kingsolver


#another #basic #crying #debris #embrace

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.


Bertrand Russell


#delight #exaltation #excellence #found #highest