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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

—Oscar Wilde

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

—Oscar Wilde

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce

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Today is today, yesterday is yesterday, the future is the time that is left.

—Karl Lagerfeld

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

—Kurt Vonnegut in The Sirens of Titan

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All things are difficult before they are easy.

—Thomas Fuller

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There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

—Kurt Vonnegut in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

—Kurt Vonnegut in The Sirens of Titan

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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

—Elie Wiesel

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

—Mark Twain

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

—Robert Frost

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

—Mae West

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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

—Alain de Botton

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