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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? ↗

— James Madison

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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. ↗

— John Randolph

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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. ↗

— Alan Rickman

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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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