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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

—Samuel Butler

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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

—Nicholas Chamfort

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There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

—David Benioff in When the Nines Roll Over

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

—George Eliot

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A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love

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That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

—Pittacus Lore in I Am Number Four

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I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

—Charles M. Schulz

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We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that somehow pertains to our questions. This especially applies to what we used to call bad things. The challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

—James Redfield in The Celestine Prophecy

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D’you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

—Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things

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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

—Nancy Astor

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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

—Neil Gaiman

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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

—Peter Drucker

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We change at least one person’s life just by being born.

—Samantha Sotto in Before Ever After

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We feel and know that we are eternal.

—Baruch Spinoza

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

—Harry Shearer

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