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Humour Famous Sayings - 24
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
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Unknown
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fear
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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Jacob Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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The Rock
I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.
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Marcel Proust
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
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Hellen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Robert Louis Stephenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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Brigid Antonia Brophy
Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
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