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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She…
— Willa Cather
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Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry…
— Unknown Author
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
— William Hazlitt
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It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm convinced true fulfillment is living in God's world one day at a time, savoring it, leaving today's disapointments behind and borrowing…
— Olive Ann Burns
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When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall…
— Emily Giffin
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The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
— Darin Strauss
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How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes,…
— Ruskin Bond
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