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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Ability
Charles Caleb Colton

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Ideas
David H Comins

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He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Rewards
Confucius

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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Wickedness
Confucius

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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Epitaphs
Cyril Connolly

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Marriage
Cyril Connolly

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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Wit
Noel Coward

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Books - Reading
Jim Critchfield

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While we read history we make history.
History and Historians
George William Curtis

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness
Dalai Lama

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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Books - Reading
Frank Dane

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The personal appropriation of clich?s is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
Travel and Tourism
Serge Daney

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Death and Dying
Clarence Darrow

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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
Spirit and Spirituality
Ram Dass

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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Censure
Demosthenes

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What we wish, that we readily believe.
Faith
Demosthenes

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Books - Reading
Rene Descartes

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What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
Models and Modeling
Princess of Wales Diana

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Biography
Benjamin Disraeli

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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Preparation
Benjamin Disraeli

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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Books - Reading
Isaac Disraeli

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Luck is being ready for the chance.
Luck
J. Frank Doble

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What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
Fathers
Mary Mapes Dodge

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Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Efficiency
Peter F. Drucker

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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Equality
William J. Durant

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