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Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow.
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Joubert
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
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J. W. Schopf
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
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Jean De la Fontaine
In everything one must consider the end.
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Rita Mae Brown
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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La Rochefoucauld
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Douglas South Wind
You can tell the ideas of a nation by it's advertisements.
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Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
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Edith Sitwell
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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John Ruskin
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
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