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I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.: Totie Fields
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We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.: John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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All phone calls are obscene.: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
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You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.: John Wooden (1910 - )
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.: Joseph F. Newton
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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.: Ecclesiastes
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In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.: Rabbi Seymour Siegel
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.: Barry Switzer (1937 - )
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.: Anne Lamott
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.: William J. H. Boetcker
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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