"Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- and another woman to help him forget them."

Rowland, Helen on infidelity
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"You win only if you aren't afraid to lose."

Aoki, Rocky on failure
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"If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk."

Sheehan, George on adversity
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"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

Hemingway, Ernest on writers and writing   

"You can observe a lot by just watching."

Berra, Yogi on observation
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"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Hepburn, Katharine on rules
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"Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will."

Sterling, John on color
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"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"

Woolf, Virginia on doctors   

"He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]"

Bible on money   

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on responsibility
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"Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on character   

"Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on loyalty
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"It is better to be faithful than famous."

Roosevelt, Theodore on loyalty
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on words
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"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

Carmichael, Amy on love
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"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

Bachelard, Gaston on books - reading
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"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on food and eating
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"

Greene, Graham on faith
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"Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you."

Bridges, Madeline on extra mile   

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on fun
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."

Trevelyan, G. M. on books - reading
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"Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man."

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De on glory   

"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

Simpson, Homer on understanding
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"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony."

Sabatini, Rafael on humor   

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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop on advice
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"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love"

Mother Teresa on joy
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"Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered."

Coneille, Pierre on resolution   

"Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on action   

"You will go most safely in the middle."

Ovid on moderation   

"He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals."

Cervantes, Miguel De on fools and foolishness
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"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."

Fielding, Henry on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Every orientation presupposes a disorientation."

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus on taste   

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

Winfrey, Oprah on association
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"A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it."

Herold, Don on humor
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"He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing."

Lowell, James Russell on knowledge   

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"Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them."

Holtz, Lou on problems
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"A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet."

Proverb, German on mediocrity
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