"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane."

Jennings, Waylon on insanity
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"It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."

Thatcher, Margaret on enemies
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on insanity
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."

Tillich, Paul on god
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. "

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"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."

Poe, Edgar Allan on slander
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"If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written."

Johnson, Samuel on slander   

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"Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination."

Hazlitt, William on slander   

"What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it."

Wilde, Oscar on slander
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"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."

Stewart, Mary on slander   

"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."

Bierce, Ambrose on slander   

"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."

Bancroft, George on slander
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"It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you."

Twain, Mark on slander
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"Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away."

Butler, Samuel on indecision
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"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."

Butler, Samuel on joy
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"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper."

Butler, Samuel on debate
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"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

Adenauer, Konrad on humankind
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"A thick skin is a gift from God."

Adenauer, Konrad on determination
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