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Clever Things People Say - 48
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Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Lillian Eichler Watson
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
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Samuel Smiles
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Andrew W. Mathis
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
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Ernest Hemingway
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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James Harvey Robinson
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
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Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
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Annie Dillard
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
Beware the man of one book.
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Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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George Wald
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.
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Mignon McLaughlin
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.
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