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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." »Havelock Ellis
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"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." »Havelock Ellis
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"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance." »Yiddish Proverb
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"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major nuisance or General Disturbance." »Elaine Richards
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"Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison." »Will Rogers
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"Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world." »Philip Howard
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"The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances." »Robert Staughton Lynd
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"The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government." » Ralph Waldo Emerson, …Journal, 1860
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"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan
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