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Homer
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
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Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Prophet Mohammad, Abu-Masud: Bukhari
If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like.
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Plato, Dialogues, Apology
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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P. J. O\'Rourke
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Sir Walter Scott
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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Sir James MacKintosh
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
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H. L. Mencken
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
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