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William Cobbett
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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H. L. Mencken
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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Madame de Lambert
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
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Laurence J. Peter
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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Tom Thompson
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
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Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.
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P Barnum
Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.
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Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
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Henry Ward Beecher
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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