"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."

Gibbon, Edward on writers and writing   

"A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."

Shakespeare, William on money
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"One pain is lessened by another's anguish."

Shakespeare, William on pain
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"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also."

Beecher, Henry Ward on feelings
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Wilde, Oscar on quotations
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"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."

Buddha on hatred
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

Buddha on health
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha on anger
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues."

Balzac, Honore De on women
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"These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them."

Aristophanes on women
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"Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down."

Delillo, Don on women
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"Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."

Dior, Christian on women   

"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."

Earhart, Amelia on women
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"When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"

Evans, Dame Edith on women
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"A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."

Reagan, Nancy on women
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"There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."

Mother Teresa on hunger
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"Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation."

Farrall, Joseph on happiness
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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."

Gibran, Kahlil on desire
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"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

Churchill, Winston on time
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"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

Ali, Muhammad on age and aging
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"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing."

Monroe, Marilyn on fame
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"It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors."

Bagnold, Enid on affection
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"In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on evolution   

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on politics
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"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

Dahlberg, Edward on lust
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"There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die."

Harvey, William on gossip   

"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words: love and achievement. In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. "

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"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't."

Thomas, Dylan on innocence
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"Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."

Lahr, John on advertising   

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on death
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"The more things change, the more they remain the same."

Karr, Alphonse on change   

"For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt."

Kearney on change
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"Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change."

Kempis, Thomas on change
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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

Kennedy, John F. on change
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"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."

Kennedy, John F. on change
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"We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures."

Burke, James E. on risk
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