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Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Mary Catherine Bateson
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
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Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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Ruth Fulton Benedict
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
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O. Henry
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Samuel Smiles
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
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Carl Sagan
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Plutarch
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Tryon Edwards
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.
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Peter Ustinov
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
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James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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