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general rule
«A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself»
«In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
composing, every other, General Idea, general rule, General will, pen, vigor, writing style
«As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
general, general rule, information, most successful, rule
«Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abstract, confesses, exertion, general rule, practically
«I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
concluded, distinctly, general rule
«As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
abstain, abstaining, abstains, attacks, general, general rule, offer, properly, provoked, provokes, reports, report it, wishing
