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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.: The Talmud
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Metropolitan Life, 1978
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.: Jewish Proverb
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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.: Robert Orben
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.: Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.: William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.: Nancy Reagan (1921 - )
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.: Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.: Charles Churchill
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.: Zach Braff
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.: Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)
Mustard's no good without roast beef.: Chico Marx (1891 - 1961)