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- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
- Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks. - Ellen Herman, Northern Exposure, Only You, 1991
- Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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