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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.


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GRETCHEN RUBIN Cleanliness beings with purity of your own mind, thoughts and heart.
VISHWAS CHAVAN I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
UTADA HIKARU Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
STEVEN J. ROSS Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
CAVETT ROBERT Cleanliness is next to godliness.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.
CHACE CRAWFORD Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be a...
HENRY VAUGHAN ("THE SILURIST") All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
BIBLE Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
JOHN WESLEY Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) God loveth the clean.
KORAN For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ...
FRANCIS BACON Its only when you Clean your doorstep that you have the right to criticize your friends for not visi...
LINUS GITARI No matter how sporting clean you may be in appearance,your excreta is always very unclean.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
JOHN WESLEY Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
CRAIG BROWN Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Cleanliness begins with love for godliness
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Where is the culture of cleanliness?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Godliness is the root of cleanliness.
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SIMON COWELL Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness
SAMUEL BUTLER One, who maintains cleanliness keeps away diseases.
SAM VEDA Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'ROURKE Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, n...
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ELIZABETH GOUDGE Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The cleanliness is essential to conducting nano-scale research.
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SALLY J. PLA If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting tha...
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TERRY PRATCHETT Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.
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LISA SNOWDON Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBES Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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LISA SNOWDON My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects ...
CHANAKYA To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
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CATHERINE MARSHALL Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten...
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WANDA CARLSON Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
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ANNA WEBER What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is a problem that has nothing to do with cleanliness. It has to do with a source bringing them in...
JOSEPH O'CONNOR I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanlines...
NARENDRA MODI I never had a drink in my life. I don't smoke or anything.
TYLER, THE CREATOR Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
ROGER BABSON The friendliness of the people was impressive, and their cleanliness was unbelievable. They also all...
BOB CANDEE The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the low...
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RIC OCASEK I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
MAHATMA GANDHI ڕێگه‌ ناده‌م كه‌س پياسه‌ بكات له‌ناو مێشكم ، به‌قاچ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Neither poverty nor wealth is in the wallet. They are all in the mind.
OLA BARNABAS CLEANLINESS FREAKS are one of the most dirtiest beings on Earth! And PERFECTIONISTS, the most boring...
LUKHMAN PAMBRA Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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CHIP TAYLOR Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because the...
SALMON P. CHASE Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in uncle...
DAN GROAT Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain ...
LORETTA LYNCH Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
KYAN DOUGLAS But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
BRUCE JOHNSTON It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive P...
SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. ...
MINDY KALING The cleanest cloth is the cloth you wash to fade!
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.
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SANDRA LEE Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you&...
EMERIL LAGASSE All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, th...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feelin...
FRANCES FARMER It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
ROGER BABSON took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.
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IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR That's what I do, ... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke ....
BEANIE SIGEL Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I was neither human nor dragon. Just me.
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DOROTHEA DIX its no matter neither what is right nor what is wrong,in the end it depends upon on your choice...
REA BELINARIO John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pau...
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ROBERT BURNS We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.
ROBERT BURNS His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither-- They had been fou for ...
ROBERT BURNS The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor ...
ROBERT BURNS But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent a...
ROBERT BURNS Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of wo...
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.
HEATHER BURNS YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
BURNIE BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify t...
KEN BURNS There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It...
BURNIE BURNS It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep t...
ROBERT BURNS I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which i...
MAX BURNS O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed ...
ROBERT BURNS Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nat...
CONRAD BURNS The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling o...
ROBERT BURNS The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as cl...
GEORGE BURNS