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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

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Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill

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A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Euripides

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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Samuel Beckett

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine

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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Lao Tzu

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

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