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"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."
By Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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"At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide."
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
By Eric Hoffer
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"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
By James Thurber
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
By Victor Hugo
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"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
By Sidney J. Harris
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"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."
By Aldous Huxley
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
By Aldous Huxley
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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
By Oscar Wilde
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"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
By Ogden Nash
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"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
By George Steiner
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"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
By Henry Ford
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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager.""
By William S. Burroughs
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"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."
By John le Carre
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
By Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
By Nicholas Chamfort
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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
By Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
By Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
By Gian Vincenzo Gravina
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