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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.
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De la Lastra's Corollary
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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Alec Bourne
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
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Kenneth Hildebrand
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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G. Gordon Liddy
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People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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The reverse side also has a reverse side.
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Japanese Proverb
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To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.
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Peter Blake, House M.D., Safe, 2006
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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Charles Mackay
If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
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Nadine Stair
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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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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