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- I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
- Somerset Maugham
- It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Society is like the air, necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- Santayana
- Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
- Collins
- There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The greatest mistake is trying to be m ore agreeable than you can be.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- The excessive desire of pleasing goes along almost always with the apprehension of not being liked.
- Dr. Fuller
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