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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.: John Lancaster Spalding
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Senator Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), New Hampshire Democratic Primary Speech, 01-08-08
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?: Dolores Huerta
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Adventure is just bad planning.: Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
The future will be better tomorrow.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.: Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
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