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- I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
- Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
- Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Pygmalion" (1913)
- Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
- You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Misalliance"
- He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
- Dr. Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677), quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916 by Rev. W. Odom
- Living well is the best revenge.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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