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Funniest Famous People Sayings - 19
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Carl Schurz
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.
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Epictetus
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.
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Hunter
He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.
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W. S. Gilbert
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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Latin Proverb
Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Francis Crawford
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.
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Francis Bacon
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
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William James
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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