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Rutherford B Hayes: Virtue is defined...

Rutherford B Hayes: Virtue is defined...

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Source: In...

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William McKinley: Our differences are...

William McKinley: Our differences are...

Our differences are politics, our agreements principles.

Source: Speech, 1901
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Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Life is so unlike theory.

Source: Phineas Finn.
-- Anthony Trollope, (Apr 24...

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Ariel Durant: It is good...

Ariel Durant: It is good...

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on...

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Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Middle age is youth without its levity,
And age without decay.


Source: In...

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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Source: In The...

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Joseph Goebbels: If the day...

Joseph Goebbels: If the day...

If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history,...

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Mickey Spillane: If the public...

Mickey Spillane: If the public...

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: Despite the encouraging...

Sandra Day O'Connor: Despite the encouraging...

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Horatio Nelson: When I came...

Horatio Nelson: When I came...

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It...

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Benjamin Jowett: The way to...

Benjamin Jowett: The way to...

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.

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Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Human beings do...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Human beings do...

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Source: With a Daughter's Eye,...

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Carl Sagan: The gears of...

Carl Sagan: The gears of...

The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith is the...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith is the...

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Whatever glory belongs...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Whatever glory belongs...

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full...

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Jeremy Collier: Perpetual pushing and...

Jeremy Collier: Perpetual pushing and...

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives...

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