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  • "A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color."
    By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  • "There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."
    By: Thomas Hobbes
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  • "Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."
    By: Oliver Herford
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  • "Many are called but few get up."
    By: Oliver Herford
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  • "Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony."
    By: Oliver Herford
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  • "Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him."
    By: Ernest Hemingway
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  • "I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have."
    By: Woody Hayes
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  • "People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being."
    By: Vaclav Havel
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  • "If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, ''You Only Live Once."
    By: Sidney J. Harris
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  • "I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
    By: Christopher Hampton
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  • "Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Those that think must govern those that toil."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "The jests of the rich are ever successful."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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