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I'm having a glorious old age. One of my greatest delights is that I have outlived most of my opposition.: Maggie Kuhn, Speech to Vermont state legislature, 1991
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.: Pearl S. Buck, China, Past and Present, 1972
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Seven Lectures to a Young Man, 1844
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Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), First Inaugural Adress, 1801
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How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.: James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.: Everett Mckinley Dirkson
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