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Silly Quotations from Famous People - 152
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Francis Bacon
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Dr. Irwin Sarason
Good friends are good for your health.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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G. K. Chesterton
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Hal Borland
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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Jewish Proverb
You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
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Saadi, On the Duties of Society
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.
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James Barrie
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Arthur Somers Roche
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
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Jules Feiffer
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
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Saint Jerome, Letter
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
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Walter Winchell
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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