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G. K. Chesterton:

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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Josh Billings:

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.

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Mario Cuomo:

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things.

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George Burns:

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn’t addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

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Douglas Adams:

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, “as pretty as an airport.”

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William Faulkner:

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

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Raymond Chandler:

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

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Dante Alighieri:

He listens well who takes notes.

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Euripides:

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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Dorothy Day:

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

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Bill Cosby:

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.

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Abigail Adams (in a letter to John Adams):

Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.

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Ernie Pyle:

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

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Saki:

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

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Samuel Adams:

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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Walter Cronkite:

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know, not what they want to know.

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Joseph Conrad:

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

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John Locke:

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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Jean Giraudoux:

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

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