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- The living need charity more than the dead.
- George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue (1866)
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories
- They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects
- The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme (1737)
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Heretics (1905)
- I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
- Joe Orton (1933 - 1967), Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964)
- I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
- William Congreve (1670 - 1729), Love for Love (1695)
- The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), The Future of an Illusion (1927)
- The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914)
- It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954), Outspoken Essays (1919)
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