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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 12
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Hesiod
Even though it's hard, it's easy.
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James Thurber
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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Norman Cousins
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
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Saki
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.
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Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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Homer
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
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Isaac Goldberg
Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
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John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
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