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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
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Anne Tyler
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda
A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
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Chris Rock
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.
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Mary Lyon
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.
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Siddha Nagarjuna
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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Assyrian Proverb
If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
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Publilius Syrus
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Confucius Analects
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
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Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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