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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
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'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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ALL things great are wound up with all things little.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
All my possessions for a moment of time.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.: Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.: Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.: Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
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I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.': Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
Even writers need relief from words.: Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
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First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.: Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
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You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.: Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), as a small child
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