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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
Men and Women
George Bernard Shaw

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Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?
Vision
George Bernard Shaw

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You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
Uncategorised
George Bernard Shaw

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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
Happiness
Alexander Smith

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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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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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
Knowledge
Spanish Proverb

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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
Atheism
Captain J. G. Stedman

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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Misers and Misery
Gertrude Stein

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Complexity
Wallace Stevens

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
Life and Living
Tom Stoppard

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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
Dress
Jonathan Swift

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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Abstinence
Sir William Temple

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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Prayer
St. Teresa of Avila

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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau

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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Letters
Henry David Thoreau

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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Egotism
Henry David Thoreau

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I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Pride
Henry David Thoreau

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Success
Henry David Thoreau

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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Acting and Actors
Spencer Tracy

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
God
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
Parents and Parenting
Mark Twain

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Congress
Mark Twain

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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Politicians and Politics
Mark Twain

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Socializing and Socialism
Source Unknown

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