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No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.: Tom Thompson
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.: Nancy Friday
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Eye contact is the best accessory.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.: Shana Alexander
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious.: Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.: Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.: Joseph Farrell
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)