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- The excessive desire of pleasing goes along almost always with the apprehension of not being liked.
- Dr. Fuller
- We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the luke-warm approval of men of intelligence.
- Vauvenargues
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.
- Frank H. Underhill
- Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
- Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
- Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the draught.
- Dwight W. Morrow
- You can always get truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up hope of the Presidency.
- Wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884)
- Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
- John Gardner
- The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live.
- Mortimer Adler
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