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- A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
- Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
- Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
- There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
- There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), "Heretics", 1905
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
- John Blake
- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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