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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.: Robertson Davies
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.: Peter McArthur
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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.: Scipione Alberti
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Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.: Swedish Proverb
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.: Amy Bloom
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.: Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.: Dudley Moore (1935 - 2002)
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If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.: Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974)
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)