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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665
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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.: From "Taxi"
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.: Hesketh Pearson
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Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.: John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
They can conquer who believe they can.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
What worries you masters you.: Haddon W. Robinson
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
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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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.: R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
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