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J. C. Watts
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
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Wendell Phillips
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Oscar Wilde
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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Basil King
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
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William Hazlitt
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Alan Patrick Herbert
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Edith Wharton
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
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George Eliot, Middlemarch
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer.
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Henry David Thoreau
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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