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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 52
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Peter Ustinov
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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Johann von Goethe
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Sophocles
Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
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Captain Lawrence Oates, last words
I am just going outside and may be some time.
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Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Heinrich Heine
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
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Edwin Markham
There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.
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Hubert Humphrey
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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W.C. Fields
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
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Rene Descartes
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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