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776 quotesA person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Books - Reading
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
Caution
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.
Human Nature
Henry Miller
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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
Leaders and Leadership
John Milton
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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
Fame
John Milton
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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
Peace
John Milton
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Mind
John Milton
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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Forgiveness
Margaret Mitchell
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Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
Kindness
Wilson Mizner
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Behavior
Wilson Mizner
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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Wilson Mizner
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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
Confidence
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Success
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
Recreation
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Anger
Alfred A. Montapert
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The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.
Impossibility
N. H. Moos
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Opera
Hannah More
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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Success
Christopher Morley
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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Children
Christopher Morley
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
Agreement
Louie Morris
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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.
Knowledge
Jim Morrison
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Corruption
Bess Myerson
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Wages
Ogden Nash
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Expectation
Patricia Neal
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun