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"How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."
By Mark Twain
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"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
By Bill Cosby
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"History is more or less bunk."
By Henry Ford
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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
By Albert Schweitzer
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"He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful."
By Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
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"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."
By James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)
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"He who laughs, lasts!"
By Mary Pettibone Poole
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"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
By William James
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"Health is not simply the absence of sickness."
By Hannah Green
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"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
By Billy Wilder
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"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."
By Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978
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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
By Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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"He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful."
By Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
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"Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands."
By The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
By Bob Dylan
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"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."
By Koran
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"Hitch your wagon to a star."
By Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
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"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
By Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854
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"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had."
By Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623
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