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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Ability Function Hold Intelligence Time
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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Friendship Knowledge Love Save Wisdom Yourself
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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Forget Myself Sad Stranger Try
I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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Blame Complication Effort Failure Life Mercy Myself Situation
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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Club Country Live Rule World
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Beautiful Discover Isolation Literature Lonely Yourself
It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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Ability Enough Persistence Start Yourself
It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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Met Myself People Rude
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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Cost Day Light Morning Night Smile Worth
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Kind Love World
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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Myself Reminder Time Tired
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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Blank Fall Life Lonely World
Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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Bad Hands Lost Myself
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Ability Persistence Vital
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Experience Mistake People
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Myself People Secret Talk Wonderful

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

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