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Silly Quotations from Famous People - 42
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Harpo Marx, Harpo Speaks Autobiography - paperback, pg. 400
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
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Oscar Levant
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
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Robert Browning
What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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Sri da Avabhas
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Thomas Nashe
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
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Jerry Coleman
Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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Etty Hillesum
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
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Wilbur N. Nesbit
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
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Lord Chesterfield
Common sense is the best sense I know of.
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Oscar Wilde
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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