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Edward Clarke
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.
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Washington Irving
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Italian Proverb
Better no law than laws not enforced.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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Mildred & Victor Goertzel
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.
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Raymond Chandler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Ashley Montague
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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James Oppenheim
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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