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Quotations from Famous People - 60
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Horace
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)
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Juvenal
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Tom Blair
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Age is a function of mind over matter if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 5
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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Saint Augustine
Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.
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George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Cathleen Douglas
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.
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Sir Walter Besant
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.
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George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Author Unknown
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
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