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George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Mother Teresa
If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
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Thomas Fuller
Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
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Charles Boyle
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
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Ron Wild
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
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Aristotle
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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Claude Adrien Helvetius
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
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George Santayana
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
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Richard Lamm
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it.
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Abbe Guillaume Raynal
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously
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