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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

—Benjamin Franklin

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.

—Roger van der Heide

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Crushes are the best part of liking someone, and they are completely safe. You get all the benefits of fantasizing about someone, but none of the he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not drama. It's all the good parts with none of the parts that make you lie awake at night all angsty.

—Liz Czukas in  Ask Again Later

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

—Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

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That's the thing about marriage. It can look perfect to people from the outside but be utterly imperfect on the inside. The reverse is true as well. No one knows what goes on in a marriage except for the two people living in it.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Beautiful Day

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It always amazes me how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

—Nicole Williams in Crash

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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

—Peter De Vries

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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

—John Andrew Holmes

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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

—Charlie Chaplin

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Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you're you.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

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Don't simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.

—Joel Osteen in Your Best Life Now

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When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can't just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Maybe in Another Life

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