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- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
- Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
- My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.
- Richard Gere, to The Guardian (UK), June 2002
- I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
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