Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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