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Ogden Nash
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
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Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
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Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his
Publish and be damned!
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Jon Kabit-Zinn
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.
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Moralia
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
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John Whitehead
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.
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Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Groucho Marx
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
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William E. Channing
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
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Harold Stephens
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
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