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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
— Frank Herbert
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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
— Dorothy Parker
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The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed…
— Chester Carlson
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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
— Plutarch
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is…
— Louisa May Alcott
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