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The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The more you know, the less you need.: Aboriginal Saying
Why be a man when you can be a success?: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.: Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.: William Goldman, The Princess Bride
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.: Denise Levertov
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The wages of sin are unreported.: Unknown
Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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We are always the same age inside.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.: Marlo Thomas
Trust one who has gone through it.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), The Aeneid
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.: Janet Long
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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