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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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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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The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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You should not live one way in private, another in public.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.: Brenda Ueland
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Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.: Salma Hayek
Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.: George McDonald
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.: Norm Crosby
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.': Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.: William H. Mauldin (1921 - 2003)
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.: Fritz Perls
Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.: David Shore, House M.D., Last Temptation, 2011
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.: Jimmy Breslin
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.: Max Frisch
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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.: Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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Never give a child a sword.: Latin Proverb
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.: Sir Henry Taylor
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.: Jack Handey (1949 - )