We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's
wisdom.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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Bad is never good until worse happens.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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As we grow old, our sense of the value of time becomes vivid. Nothing else, indeed, seems
of any consequence.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What
you are thinking is your business.
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Our memories are card-indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities
whom we do not control.
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Patience
is the best medicine.
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The mind covers more ground than the heart but goes less far.
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Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
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I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.
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Don't go on looking at me like that, because you'll wear your eyes out.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no
river.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning
stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
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We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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As smile is a curve that can set things straight.
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When you give the reins to reason, then the imagination is repressed.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
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Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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To think and to be fully alive are the same thing.
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He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
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Nothing can be so perfect when we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself
in the presence of others.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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My own mind is my own church.
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I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes.
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No art has a shorter life than political art.
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Suit the action to the word, word to action.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.
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Luck is being ready for the chance.
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bility will never catch up for the demand for it.
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Good is not good, when better is expected.
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both
well.
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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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Let us not be too particular: it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at
all.
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You become courageous by doing courageous acts... Courage is a habit.
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate
that too.
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It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody
to divide it with.
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Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis, and
I could hardly wait until I was 50 to start again.
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The real danger is not that machines will begin to think like men, but that men will begin
to think like machines.
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring
them.
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Most people would rather die than think: many do.
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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his
skull.
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Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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Miracles happen only to those who believe in them.
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You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose for
one.
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Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control
emotions by the application of reason.