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- Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
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