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- The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
- The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
- Donald Foster
- The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
- The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
- Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
- A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
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