"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

Angelou, Maya on Life, Lust For
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Angelou, Maya on Impression
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"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on Writers and Writing
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"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on Memory
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"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

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"A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on."

Allen, Fred A. on Gentlemen
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"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

Clemenceau, Georges on America
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"A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable."

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"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."

Pirandello, Luigi on Gentlemen
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"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Dickens, Charles on Gentlemen
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"The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years."

Wilde, Oscar on America
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on Gentlemen
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on Truth
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

Plato on Knowledge
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