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- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave the unsaid the wrong thing thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms-the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer
- One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- The unfortunate thing about this word is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
- Somerset Maugham
- Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
- Moritz Guedemann
- Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
- William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
- The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of the appeal.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tire, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
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