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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.: Henrik Tikkanen
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
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By the work one knows the workmen.: Jean De La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
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A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.: John Grogan, An Interview with John Grogan, 2008
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Love truth, and pardon error.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.: Donald Trump (1946 - )
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-29-2006
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If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.: Woody Allen (1935 - )