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Wells Quotes - Page 46

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song”, p.418

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.183, Lettere Animate Editore

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881). “Asphodel, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.”

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3252, GENERAL PRESS

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

Mark Helprin (2017). “Ellis Island and Other Stories”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.117, Rowman & Littlefield

I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.

Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.73

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

"Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book XVI, Chapter 7), 68-43 BC.