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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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Robertson Davies
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
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Peter McArthur
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.
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Scipione Alberti
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
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Swedish Proverb
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
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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.
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Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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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.
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Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
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Dudley Moore (1935 - 2002)
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.
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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.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
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Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974)
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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