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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
Idleness
Sir Richard Steele

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Change
Adlai E. Stevenson

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Age and Aging
Adlai E. Stevenson

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action
Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Success
Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Quotations
Tom Stoppard

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Bear the inevitable with dignity.
Difficulties
Streckfuss

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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Nagging
Edith Summerskill

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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Amiability
Anne Sophie Swetchine

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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Fraud
Publilius Syrus

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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
Merit
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

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Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
Self-denial
Jane Taylor

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
Money
Tertullian

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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Men
Margaret Thatcher

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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Farming and Farmers
Henry David Thoreau

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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
Solitude
Henry David Thoreau

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
Law and Lawyers
Henry David Thoreau

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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Travel and Tourism
Henry David Thoreau

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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Forgiveness
John Tillotson

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Civilization
Arnold Toynbee

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Love
Thomas Traherne

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
Politicians and Politics
Harry S Truman

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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
Aid and Assistance
Mark Twain

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