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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 192
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Ann Landers
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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Leonardo DaVinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
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Diane Ackerman
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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John Updike
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
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Marquis de Lafayette
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
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Mark Twain
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
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S. E. Lindsay, 1920
Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.
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Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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E. M. Forster
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
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