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- The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy; p. 14
- I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), In the film A Day at the Races
- When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
- If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), US Secretary of Defense
- She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
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