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Humour Quotations from Famous People - 74
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world belongs to the energetic.
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Franoise Mallet-Joris
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.
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Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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Socrates
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
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Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
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Hastings
A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.
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William Shakespeare
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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H. Heimlich
If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.
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Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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