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- Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- 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
- In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- 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)
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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