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Vernon Sanders Law
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
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James Madison
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Heywood Broun
A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.
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Cornelius Tacitus
I am my nearest neighbour.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
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Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
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Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Romain Cary
Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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