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- If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
- It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- Beware of telling an improbable truth.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
- 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)
- The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the luke-warm approval of men of intelligence.
- Vauvenargues
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
- Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
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