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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy. To denizens of the midworld the word means good and wise.

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Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

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Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.

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Simplify, simplify.

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Since I am coming to that holy room, / Where, with thy quire of Saints for evermore, / I shall be made thy Music; As I come / I tune the instrument here at the door, / And what I must do then, think here before.

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We cansubordinate feelings to values.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.

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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak

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Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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O the pious friendships of the female sex!

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O World, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties

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No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, till half of mankind were, like himself, possest

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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