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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Civilized Consideration Giving Incapable Kindness Offence Quality Unnecessary
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Education Force Impossible Inspirational Inspiring Mind Unreasoning Upon
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Anything Catchword Faith Necessity People Pin Understanding
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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Comfortable Deepest Envy Good Incite Period Purpose Universal Work
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Biblical Gray Old Ought Outlook Seventy Sunshine Uncompromising Weighted Year
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Education Language Liberal
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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Change Delight Happiest Innovation Love Mituable Person Restless
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Bad Enough Taste Unpardonable
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Happiness Laughter Lawless Nature Part Spring
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Height Ignoring Moral Obligation Scale
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Backward Giving Pacidity Soon Stagnation Stron Strong Tide
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Country Encourage Giving Mediocre Mediocrity Name Neighbour Often Seldom
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Cinema Movie Puzzle Rather Taken Thing
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Event Humor Insight Ironic Tolerance
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Draught Kindness Milk Unpalatable
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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