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Mark Twain
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
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Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
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Cicero
When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.
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Homer, The Iliad
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
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G. K. Chesterton
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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Muhammad Ali
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
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Harry S Truman
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
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Alfred De Musset
We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.
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Robert Burton
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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Benjamin Franklin
Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
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Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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