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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Author: Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10 Look
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At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Look
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Author: Eric Hoffer Look
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
Author: James Thurber Look
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Author: Victor Hugo Look
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Author: Sidney J. Harris Look
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
Author: Aldous Huxley Look
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Look
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Author: Aldous Huxley Look
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Author: Oscar Wilde Look
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Author: Ogden Nash Look
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A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Author: George Steiner Look
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Author: Henry Ford Look
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
Author: William S. Burroughs Look
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
Author: John le Carre Look
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Author: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Look
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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
Author: Nicholas Chamfort Look
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Author: Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938) Look
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Look
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Author: Gian Vincenzo Gravina Look
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