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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

—John Steinbeck in The Winter of Our Discontent

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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

—Mark Twain

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

—Mark Twain

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

—Abba Eban

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The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.

—James Hinton

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What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.

—Joseph Conrad in Under Western Eyes

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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

—Oscar Wilde

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

—Oscar Wilde

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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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