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Jean Jacques Rousseau: He who is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: He who is...

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

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In opera, as...

In opera, as...

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but...

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Artists have a...

Artists have a...

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

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Warren Buffett: Time is the...

Warren Buffett: Time is the...

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Source: In...

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John Buchan: There may be...

John Buchan: There may be...

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make...

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George MacDonald: But for money...

George MacDonald: But for money...

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if...

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Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for...

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Keeping up with...

Keeping up with...

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I...

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John Vanbrugh: Virtue is its...

John Vanbrugh: Virtue is its...

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays...

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Norbert Wiener: [M]athematics is a...

Norbert Wiener: [M]athematics is a...

[M]athematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a...

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Madness is always...

Madness is always...

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body,...

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Jeremy Bernstein: Never speak more...

Jeremy Bernstein: Never speak more...

Never speak more clearly than you think.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Bernard Berenson: When everything else...

Bernard Berenson: When everything else...

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the...

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Ian Fleming: A horse is...

Ian Fleming: A horse is...

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Source: In...

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Artemus Ward: I have already...

Artemus Ward: I have already...

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's...

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Bernard Berenson: From childhood on...

Bernard Berenson: From childhood on...

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as...

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Mary Quant: The fashionable woman...

Mary Quant: The fashionable woman...

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Source: In The...

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Tom Stoppard: Skill without imagination...

Tom Stoppard: Skill without imagination...

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: The art of...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: The art of...

The art of healing comes from nature not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an...

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Dagobert Runes: Compassion is the...

Dagobert Runes: Compassion is the...

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever...

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