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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

—Diogenes

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Good order is the foundation of all things.

—Edmund Burke

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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

—George Herbert

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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

—Jane Wagner

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

—J. M. Barrie

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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

—P.G. Wodehouse

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

—Charles Kettering

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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

—Muriel Spark

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

—Dick Cavett

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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

—J. Paul Getty

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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

—Will Cuppy

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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Salvation is for the feeble, that’s what I think. I don’t want salvation. I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

—Tom Robbins

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People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

—Tom Robbins

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Growing up is a trap. When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

—Tom Robbins

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