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«In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions»
«What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr.
| Keywords:
Achilles, assumed, beyond question, conjecture, conjectures, hid, puzzling, sang, Sirens
«No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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conjecture, conjectures, cowardly, cruel, devout, loyal, perceive, surmise, surmises, uncertain
«To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.»
«OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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astronomer, astronomers, conjecture, conjectures, guesses, observatory
«There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
conjecture, conjectures, returns, wholesale
«The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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agitate, agitated, agitates, agitating, conjecture, conjectures, first appearance, monarch, monarchs, performances, pit, prognostication, retirement, theatrical, theatricals, the pit
«It is difficult to conjecture, from the conduct of him whom we see in a low condition, how he would act if wealth and power were put into his hands»
«Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle»
«You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world»
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