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- A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978
- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
- The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy; p. 14
- I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), In the film A Day at the Races
- There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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