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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Character
Fred Astaire

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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Churches
Brooks Atkinson

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You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
Relationships
W. H. Auden

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Self-love
Red Auerbach

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Charity
St. Augustine

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Adversity
St. Augustine

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
God
St. Augustine

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Action
Marcus Aurelius

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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Harmony
Marcus Aurelius

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Thoughts and Thinking
Marcus Aurelius

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Character
Decimus Magnus Ausonius

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Ridicule
Jane Austen

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Men and Women
Jane Austen

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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
Grammar
Isaac Babel

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
Anger
Francis Bacon

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Envy
Francis Bacon

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Variety
Francis Bacon

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Humankind
Francis Bacon

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Adversity
Francis Bacon

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Proverbs
Francis Bacon

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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Newspapers
Arthur Baer

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All serious daring starts from within.
Risk
Joan Baez

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The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
Relationships
Joan Baez

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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
America
Philip James Bailey

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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Family
Anita Baker

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