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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.: Michael Pritchard
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.: Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.: Doug Ferrari
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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.: Gail Pool
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.: John Updike (1932 - )
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The phrase "action speaks louder than words," is most easily proven by a swift kick to the genitals.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
Forever is composed of nows.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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