Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self interest.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.
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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I can assure you that it's quite conscious.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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