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- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
- I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
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