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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
Persuasion
French Proverb

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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Satisfaction
Mahatma Gandhi

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Critics and Criticism
German Proverb

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History and Historians
Edward Gibbon

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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Lies and Lying
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
Correction
Oliver Goldsmith

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Friends and Friendship
Baltasar Gracian

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Knowledge
Baltasar Gracian

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Lies and Lying
Graham Greene

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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Lies and Lying
Graham Greene

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A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Writers and Writing
George Gribbon

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
Family
Matt Groening

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Peace
Ben Hecht

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Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
Kisses and Kissing
Heinrich Heine

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Retirement
Ernest Hemingway

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
Heart
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Instinct
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
Advertising
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Children
Edgar Watson Howe

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A library implies an act of faith.
Libraries
Victor Hugo

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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Facts
Thomas H. Huxley

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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Sentiment
Thomas H. Huxley

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Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.
Ideals and Idealism
Henrik Ibsen

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
Reason
Italian Proverb

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
Truth
Thomas Jefferson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun