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Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.: Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.: Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, April 2004
We only do well the things we like doing.: Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 'cause it's expected of ya, not 'cause of anything else.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.: Jackie Mason (1934 - )
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.: Baltasar Gracian
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.: Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
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Too much of a good thing is wonderful.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.': Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.: Japanese Proverb
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This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.: Frederick William Robertson
I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.: Sara B. Cooper, House M.D., Love Hurts, 2004
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There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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