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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. – Addison
A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. – William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. – Washington Irving
A kind word is like a spring day. – Russian Proverb
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. – William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. – Marlene Dietrich
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. – Mistinguett
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. – Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. – Rupert Brooke
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity. – V. P. Skipper
A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place. – Tanielle Naus
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. – Henry Morgan
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. – Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.' – Jake Johanson
A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman. – American Proverb
A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally. – Lillian Day
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. – Max Weinreich
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. – Jane Austen
A large part of virtue consists in good habits. – William Paley
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. – G.K. Chesterton
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. – Laurence Sterne
A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A laugh is a smile that bursts. – Mary H. Waldrip

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