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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
- William Shakespeare

Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

Clifton Fadiman Quotes and Quotations

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

- Clifton Fadiman | Food Quotes

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.

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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

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