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Here are the quotes with the word apt in them. The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. — W.H.Auden The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. — Diane Arbus

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

-W.H.Auden

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

-Diane Arbus

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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

-Gertrude Stein

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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

-Donald Norman

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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

-Daniel Dennett

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I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

-Judy Collins

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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

-Harold MacMillan

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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

-Charles de Secondat

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

-Aristotle

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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

-Tacitus

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

-Charles Caleb Colton

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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

-Washington Irving

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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

-William Hazlitt

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The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

-William Hedgcock Webster

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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

-Samuel Richardson

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The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

-Harriet Ann Jacobs

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We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

-Roy L. Smith

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

-William Pitt

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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

-William E. Gladstone

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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

-P.G.Wodehouse

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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

-Anne Sullivan Macy

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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

-Harold MacMillan

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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

-John Stuart Mill

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. — W.H.Auden
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. — Diane Arbus

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