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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.: Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
A finished person is a boring person.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.: George Aiken
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Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!: Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937
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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.: Cullen Hightower
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.: Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.: Henry Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.: Will Cuppy
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Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
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