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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 195
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Bertrand Russell
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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Stephen Leacock
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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Michael Flatley
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
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Thomas Hardy
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Charles De Gaulle
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
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Anatole France
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Damon Runyon
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.
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Titus Livius
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)
I have no life, just e-mail.
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Lloyd George
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
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Book of Common Prayer
There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
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