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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
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Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.: Aaron Douglas Trimble
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"
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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.: Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
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Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
To be great is to be misunderstood.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.: Herb Caen
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.: Thomas J. Watson
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.: Richard Bach
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Oregano is the spice of life.: Henry J. Tillman