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"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

By George Bernard Shaw

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"Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life."

By Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind."

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

By William Penn

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"Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year."

By Victor Borge

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"Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace."

By John Dryden

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"Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows."

By Sir William Osler

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"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."

By Stephen Vizinczey

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"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know."

By Cullen Hightower

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"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."

By Samuel Johnson

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"Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future."

By Russell R. McIntyre

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"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

By Thomas Jefferson

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."

By Sir Francis Bacon

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"Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible."

By Dr. Karl Menninger

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"Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient."

By Cicero

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"Strain every nerve to gain your point."

By Cicero

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"Strong reasons make strong actions."

By William Shakespeare

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"Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another."

By Joseph Addison

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"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

By William Shakespeare

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"Safeguard the health both of body and soul."

By Cleobulus

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