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Quotations from Famous People - 50
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Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Sophocles
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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Jeff Melvoin
Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me
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Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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Ovid, Ars Amatoria
Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Chinese Proverb
I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.
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Robert Chapman
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
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Horace
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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Miguel de Cervantes
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it.
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Golda Meir
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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Marie De France
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
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