"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."

Bailey, David on fashion   

"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out."

West, Mae on scandal
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"Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing."

Chatfield, Paul on scandal   

"I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all."

Lincoln, Abraham on tears
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"What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul."

Proverb, Jewish on tears
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"In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears."

Paul, Jean on tears
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"Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right; immediately."

Slick, Sam on tears   

"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on family
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" Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. "

J. Harris, Sidney on uniqueness
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Familiarity breeds contempt; and children."

Twain, Mark on familiarity
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"It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Frank, Al on denial
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows."

Nielsen, Helen on humility
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"Don't be humble, you're not that great."

Meir, Golda on humility
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"Too much humility is pride."

Proverb, German on humility
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"When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it."

Unknown, Source on humility
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"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on humility
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"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ambition
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"Big results require big ambitions."

Champy, James on ambition
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"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes."

Bruyere, Jean De La on ambition   

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

Browning, Robert on ambition   

"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."

Galsworthy, John on eyes
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"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got."

Young, Andrew on influence   

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."

Hazlitt, William on bigotry   

"All diseases run into one. Old age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disease
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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

Danielson, C. Archie on ambition
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"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambition   

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

Lincoln, Abraham on greatness
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"A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on government
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"Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood."

Lincoln, Abraham on glory
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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

Lincoln, Abraham on ancestry
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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on enemies
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"I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on dream
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on dogs
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