Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: Notebooks (1935)
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If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Author: Lao Tzu
Source: The Way of Lao-tzu
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Author: Sophocles
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Author: Plato
Source: The Republic
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The end excuses any evil.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Electra (c.409 BC)
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
Author: James Thurber
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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Author: Emily Dickinson
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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Antigone
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: in a book review
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And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Be not afraid of greatness
Author: William Shakespeare
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Author: Winston Churchill
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Author: Winston Churchill
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