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William Shakespeare
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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Lord Chesterfield
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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Author Unknown
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
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Ricard
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
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Sam James Ervin, Jr.
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
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G. Weilacher
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
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Dame Edith Sitwell
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Unknown
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
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Sybil Adelman
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
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Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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Dolores Ibarruri
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Robert Millikan
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.
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