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- The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
- Sir Hugh Walpole
- The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
- Israel Zangwill
- He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
- Unknown
- The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.
- Oscar Arias
- To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
- Francios de La Rochefoucauld
- Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)
- What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.
- Victor Kiam
- A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
- Arnold Bennett
- My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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