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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.: Ashley Montague
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Conceit is God's gift to little men.: Bruce Barton
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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.: Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.: Albanian Proverb
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Friends are born, not made.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.: Edward Chapin
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Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)