Quotes on true

Written laws are like spiders’ webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Plutarch
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history of this quote “So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.” by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill
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“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.”

John Stuart Mill
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history of this quote “True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.” by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
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“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

George Bernard Shaw
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“True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”

Alexander Pope
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history of this quote “Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.” by Lord Byron

Lord Byron
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All True Poems Are About Love, Death, or the Changing of the Seasons

Samuel R. Delany
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The True New Yorker’s Secret Belief That People Living Anywhere Else Had To Be, In Some Sense, Kidding

John Updike
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“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis
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