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  • Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. -- Thomas Bowdler
  • Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three. -- William Henry Ashley
  • I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. -- Rene Descartes
  • Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.' -- Richard Stallman
  • There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. -- William Shakespeare
  • I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed. -- Leo Buscaglia
  • Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted. -- E. B. Farnum
  • If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation. -- Robert Benchley
  • ...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers. -- William Goldman
  • Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. -- Edward Abbey
  • Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos. -- George Eliot
  • There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books -- Henry Miller
  • Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat. -- Henry Van Dyke
  • You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood -- Ernest Hemingway
  • Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn't. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment. -- Richard Matheson
  • In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them. -- Nenia Campbell
  • On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more doctrinal content than Einstein's Judaism. -- J.L. Heilbron
  • It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors? -- Pope Leo X
  • We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • [Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted. -- William James
  • For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations. -- Harry S. Truman
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