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Earl Warren
The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures.
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Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
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Chinese Proverb
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
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Smiles
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
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Sir Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Orson Welles
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Walter Savage Landor
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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Fran Lebowitz
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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Geronimo
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...
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Jean Cocteau
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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