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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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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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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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