"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

Shaw, George Bernard on duty
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"Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume."

Mencken, H. L. on speakers and speaking
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"It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way."

Proverb, French on wealth
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"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."

Smith, Sydney on faith   

"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on men
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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."

Goodman, Roy on happiness
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"A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet."

Proverb, German on mediocrity
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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble"

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on character
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"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on fools and foolishness   

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on humankind   

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

Lerner, Max on evil
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Frost, Robert on diplomacy
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

Kissinger, Henry on alliances
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"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound."

Brooks, Van Wyck on speakers and speaking   

"The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on soul   

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason."

Wilde, Oscar on temper   

"I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business."

Young, Vash on giving   

"The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest."

Proverb, French on busyness
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"Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember."

Mamet, David on truth
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"Hope is the parent of faith."

Bartol, Cyrus A. on hope
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"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Carver, George Washington on hope
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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on hope
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."

Democritus on dishonesty
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"The person who lives by hope will die by despair."

Proverb, Italian on despair
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"Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes."

Agar, Herbert on promises
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"No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life."

Marden, Orison Swett on mistakes
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on hope
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"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be."

Marlowe, Christopher on hell
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

Congreve, William on anger
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"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intuition
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"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hypocrisy
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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on happiness
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"Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on evil   

"The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on gold
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