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- He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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