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“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have occurred to others”
Blaise Pascal
“I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.”
Andrew Greeley
“There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches”
Samuel Johnson
“A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.”
W. H. Auden
“The eye is easily frightened.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie”
William Shakespeare
“And there is still the more occasion for such an alarm, because worldly-mindedness so easily and craftily besets the hearts of men.”
George Whitefield
“I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never”
Michel de Montaigne
“He is as easily caught as a hare with drums”
Proverb
“Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.”
Woody Allen
