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- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
- Don Juan Manuel (1282 - 1349)
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins
- No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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