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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.: Baltasar Gracian
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.: Nora Ephron
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.: Leo J. Burke
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.: Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.: Jim Bishop
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.: Toni Morrison (1931 - )
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968), 'No Man Is an Island'