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W. Somerset Maugham


There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Voltaire


To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

H. L. Mencken


There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

Bob Talbert


Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Lucille Clifton


Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

Sophocles, Ajax


Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

There's Something About Mary


Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans

R. Goldberg


The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey.

Unknown


Serious Sincere Systematic Service Surely Secures Supreme Success.

Mencius, Works


Sincerity is the way of Heaven.

English Proverb


Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Curtis Grant


Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. - Seneca
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