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Virtue is choked with foul ambition.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
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I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.: George Aiken
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Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
I like living. 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)
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Be contented when you have got all you want.: Holbrook Jackson
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.: Dan McKinnon
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.: Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959)
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Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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