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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

—Jane Austen

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Stop looking at the past and all the things you can’t change. They’re done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go.

—Lacey Weatherford in Chasing Nikki

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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

—Robert Frost

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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

—Edgar Watson Howe

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We are none of us infallible — not even the youngest of us.

—W.H. Thompson

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Love shouldn’t make you feel like that. It should be as natural as breathing. It should happen between two people because it grew there out of something beautiful.

—A. Meredith Walters in Cloud Walking

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Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

—Pope Paul VI

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There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

—Thomas Fuller

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

—Anatole France

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

—Aristotle

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Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

—Peter McArthur

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Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

—Honoré de Balzac

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