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- By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
- There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
- To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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