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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.: Johann K. Lavater
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.: Erich Segal
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"