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- It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), The Man Upstairs (1914)
- We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)
- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
- A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
- The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
- Robert Jackson
- Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
- When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
- Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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