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- THe soul of most conservatism is sentimentality, and sentimentality, and sentimentality preserves the good and the bad with indiscriminate relish.
- Gwyn Thomas
- Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
- Somerset Maugham
- Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave the unsaid the wrong thing thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- The unfortunate thing about this word is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
- Somerset Maugham
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