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- We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- The only way to be absolutely safe is never to try anything for the first time.
- Magnes Pyke
- If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their wasted time into it!
- Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
- If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- THe soul of most conservatism is sentimentality, and sentimentality, and sentimentality preserves the good and the bad with indiscriminate relish.
- Gwyn Thomas
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- There is no possible line of conduct which has art some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.
- William Lecky
- The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
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