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Honore\' de Balzac
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Laertius Diogenes
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Anonymous
It is light grief that can take counsel.
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Carl Sagan, Cosmos
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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Jawahar Lal Neheru
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
A poem is no place for an idea.
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George Eliot
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
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Ralph W. Sockman
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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Jacques Martin Barzun
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
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Ellen Frankfort
Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.
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Margaret Cho
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
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