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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. |
Honore de Balzac |
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A medal is a small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. |
Walter Winchell |
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All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine |
Henry Louis Mencken |
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. |
W. H. Auden |
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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other |
Samuel Johnson |
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. |
Carl Sandburg |
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As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another |
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. |
George Washington |
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. |
Barbara Bush |
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Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure |
Henry David Thoreau |
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Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120]. |
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