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You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
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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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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.: Lin Yutang
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.: David Russell
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Life is just one damned thing after another.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.: Larry Hardiman
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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.: Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.: Jodie Foster (1962 - )
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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