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- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- There is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There nearly always is a method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- However difficult it is to be the homely friend of a reputed beauty, there are certain benefits. Most days, the humiliation of being the second choice is outweighed by the overflow of disappointed gentlemen.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
- There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
- Casey Stengal
- The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
- S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
- One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
- Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
- For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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