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Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
Virtue
William Shakespeare

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O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
Adultery
William Shakespeare

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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
Familiarity
William Shakespeare

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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
Family
William Shakespeare

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Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
Dreams
William Shakespeare

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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
Excellence
William Shakespeare

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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
Losers and Losing
William Shakespeare

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
Mistakes
Gina Shapira

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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Giving
George Bernard Shaw

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Experience
George Bernard Shaw

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Language
George Bernard Shaw

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Gossip
George Bernard Shaw

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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Retirement
Gail Sheehy

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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Swearing
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
Conflict
Sir Philip Sidney

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Poetry and Poets
Dame Edith Sitwell

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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Sin
Cornelia Otis Skinner

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
Mistakes
Harold J. Smith

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Youth
Logan Pearsall Smith

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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Dreams
Logan Pearsall Smith

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Friends and Friendship
Logan Pearsall Smith

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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Soul
Logan Pearsall Smith

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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Greatness
Sydney Smith

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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
Envy
Socrates

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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Appreciation
Sophocles

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