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- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
- Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
- Lane Olinghouse
- I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
- Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
- Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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