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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Jean Kerr
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
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Sallust, The War with Catiline
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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Christina Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.
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Margaret "Stevie" Smith
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said No.
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Paul O\'Neill
Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing
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Chinese Proverb
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
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Joe Orton
You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits.
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August Strindberg
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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Oscar Wilde
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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