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True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.: Edna Buchanan
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.: Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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1. Never tell everything at once.: Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.: Cullen Hightower
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Joy is not in things; it is in us.: Richard Wagner
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.: Unknown
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I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)