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- Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities
- To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism
- His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Hobbit
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities
- Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
- J. D. Salinger (1919 - ), The Catcher in the Rye, opening line
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