"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

Burton, Robert on love
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"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

Pasternak, Boris on difficulties
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"What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough."

Delacroix, Eugene on genius   

"The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor."

Feather, William on wealth   

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

Feather, William on success
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"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

Paine, Thomas on character   

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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on contentment   

"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."

Lamb, Charles on contentment
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"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."

Lamb, Charles on truth   

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"When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them."

Lamb, Charles on children   

"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."

Dangerfield, Rodney on children   

"I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest."

Dangerfield, Rodney on respectability   

"I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict."

Delacroix, Eugene on body
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