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«There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.»
«To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.»
«When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
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«You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.»
«Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? / And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.»
«Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly»
«Not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms - capital thing!»
«The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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«To presume that either from wealth or from kith and kin you can derive mental peace is a great error. Such peace only comes from God.»
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