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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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Public opinion: a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

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There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'

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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings, and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

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Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

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It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

- Dean William R. Inge | Minorities Quotes

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

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