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Tag Name "Reputed" (14)

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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
Charles Caleb Colton
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I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]
Fritz Zwicky
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Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
Georges Courteline
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He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?
Pierre Charron
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
Samuel Butler
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I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
William Shakespeare
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The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.
Woody Allen
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Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.
Arthur Desmond
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Nothing is rarer than true good nature they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.
Garrett Hardin
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I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
Michelangelo
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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.
William Gibson
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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill