"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on guests
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"Humor is the sunshine of the mind"

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on humor   

"So free we seem, so fettered we are!"

Browning, Robert on freedom
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on insanity
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"Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on deeds and good deeds
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on unemployment   

"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window."

Rascoe, Burton on writers and writing   

"In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love."

Lefebvre, Henri on eroticism   

"Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it."

Valentine, Alan on evil
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"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."

Wilde, Oscar on reason   

"Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty."

Voltaire on work
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"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."

Peter, Laurence J. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

Smith, Roy L. on christmas
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"Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!"

Saying on past   

"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

Bakunin, Mikhail on destructiveness
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"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."

Bryant, Bear on winners and winning
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"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

Berra, Yogi on goals
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"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."

Passos, John Dos on careers
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on age and aging
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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

Edwards, Tryon on self-improvement
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

Plato on music
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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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"Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision
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"In a major matter no details are small."

Gondi, Paul De on detail   

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on mind
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"Have a strong mind and a soft heart."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on mind
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"Focus on the key things you can do each day that will help you achieve your end goal. Always prioritize according to the big picture."

Clark, Jane-Michele on goal
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

Patton, George S. on courage
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"Everyone lives by selling something."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on sales
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"We all end up in a single bed sooner or later."

Proverb on cooperation
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"Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts."

Dunne, Finley Peter on alcohol and alcoholism
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"An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor."

Barach, Alvan L. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank."

Mencken, H. L. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."

Anderson, Margaret on writers and writing
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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

Stoppard, Tom on beginning
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