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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

Attain Honesty Lying Maturity Truth
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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Minorities People Psychics
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Children Independent
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Betrayed Men World
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Compassion Judging Justice
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money
A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Always Done Loser Way
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

Confidence Relationship Self Esteem
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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Men Unique War
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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Answers Predicaments Problem
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

Education Parenting Responsibility
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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