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Samuel Johnson
A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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Orison Swett Marden
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
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Sir Henry Wotton
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
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Sir Winston Churchill
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
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Albert Einstein
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.
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Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Oscar Wilde
Genius is born--not paid.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Plato
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
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Pierre Beaumarchais
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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Britney Spears
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
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Manilius
When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
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