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- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
- Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ), In a television interview with Joan Rivers
- Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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