We have need of very little learning to have a good mind.
· Michel de Montaigne
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Death is the cure for all diseases.
· Sir Thomas Browne
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Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
· Sir Winston Churchill
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
· Everett McKinley Dirkse
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Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
· Proverb
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Blame is safer than praise.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
· William E. Rothschild
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
· Logan Pearsall Smith
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I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
· Samuel Hoffenstein
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There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
· John Churton Collins
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If I had my life to live over again, I don't think I would have the strength.
· Flip Wilson
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
· Josh Billings
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Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
· Ernest Holmes
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Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers, But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.
· Ikkyu Sojun
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Most people one may say the best sort of people greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however badly, than to have things done for them, however well.
· Unknown
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There are three roots to Iman (Faith): not to trouble him who shall say 'there is no diety but God;' not to think him an unbeliever on account of one fault; and not to discard him for one crime.
· Prophet Muhammad
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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
· Angela Carter
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Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.
· Thomas Campbell
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Without the gift of love, you will never be a preacher.
· Edward King
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Rough as a cob.
· Proverb
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The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
· Thornton Niven Wilder
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Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.
· Elizabeth David
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
· Charles Dickens
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
· James Baldwin
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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it's right.
· Martin Luther King, Jr.
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My favorite animal is steak.
· Fran Lebowitz
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
· Mark Twain
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Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.
· Mark Twain
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I am an atheist, thank God!
· Unknown
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, But we make up our bodies every morning to keep it lat
· Charles Caleb Colton
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