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Evelyn Waugh
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Calvin Coolidge
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
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Plato
Knowledge is true opinion.
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Charles Gates Dawes
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
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Israel Zangwill
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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Isaac Newton, Paraphrase of 12th century quote by Bernard of Chartres
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
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Andy Warhol
I am a deeply superficial person.
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Edith Sodergran
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
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Horace
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
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Publilius Syrus
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
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Confucius
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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