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- Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006), "Holiday", 1963
- The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Letter (1769)
- In charity there is no excess.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories
- Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1970)
- They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects
- Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
- The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme (1737)
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Heretics (1905)
- I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
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