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To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.
The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.
People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.
The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.
When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
I'm honest and fair, but I don't dispense false kindness.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army
The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.
Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.
Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.
A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.
Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.
Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
I could dispense with life sooner than with your love.
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.