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Plain spoken people...

Plain spoken people...

Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

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Aristotle: The greatest virtues...

Aristotle: The greatest virtues...

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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Aristotle: Wishing to be...

Aristotle: Wishing to be...

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on...

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Francis Bacon: Champagne for my...

Francis Bacon: Champagne for my...

Champagne for my sham friends; real pain for my real friends.

Source: In Webster's...

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Our systems, perhaps,...

Our systems, perhaps,...

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose...

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Self-interest is but...

Self-interest is but...

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with...

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We are not...

We are not...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Source: The Plain Speaker, On Dreams ...

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DISABUSE, v.t. To...

DISABUSE, v.t. To...

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to...

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FORCE, n. Force...

FORCE, n. Force...

FORCE, n. Force is but might, the teacher said p
That definition's just.
The boy said naught but throught...

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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision...

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision...

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

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It is a...

It is a...

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have...

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It is reasonable...

It is reasonable...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be...

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Integrity without knowledge...

Integrity without knowledge...

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and...

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Life must be...

Life must be...

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his...

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Milton, Madam, was...

Milton, Madam, was...

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon...

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Painting consumes labour...

Painting consumes labour...

Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble...

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Resolve not to...

Resolve not to...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly...

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Ridicule is a...

Ridicule is a...

Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the...

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Sir, I have...

Sir, I have...

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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