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How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.: May Sarton
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Stones of Venice, 1880
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.: Patricia Russell-McCloud
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
Life is too short for traffic.: Dan Bellack
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Men are born to succeed, not fail.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.: Hortense Calisher
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863