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John Ruskin
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
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Richard Benner
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
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Samuel Butler
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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F Scott
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Hermann Hesse
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
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Cardinal John Newman
Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.
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William Makepeace Thackery
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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