"The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land."

Baldwin, James on immigration   

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."

Leslie, H. T. on life
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"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."

Rowland, Helen on bachelor   

"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

Orwell, George on goodness
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"Blessed is that man who has found his work."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye."

Pope, Alexander on prejudice
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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

London, Jack on circumstance
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Franklin, Benjamin on unity
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind
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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."

Herbert, George on prayer   

"Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman."

Smith, Nancy Banks on writers and writing   

"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on secrets
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"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on friends and friendship
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"You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body."

Guccione, Bob on seduction
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"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."

Cate, Henry on politics
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go."

Epitaph on atheism
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"A good scare is worth more than good advice."

Horace on advice
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir."

Mason, John L. on education
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"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Waitley, Denis on choice
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"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

Coolidge, Calvin on knowledge
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"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on youth   

"Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself."

Meehan, Francis on war
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"Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes."

Proverb, Chinese on studying
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."

Edwards, Bob on learning
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"There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wish and wishing   

"Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

Ford, Henry on fear
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"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail."

Lebowitz, Fran on dogs   

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

Dyer, Wayne on present
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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert on parents and parenting
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"And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him."

Clough, Arthur Hugh on sorrow
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"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction of writing -- one can impersonate so many people."

Mansfield, Katherine on fiction