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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
English writer 1709-1784
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?''
German poet and philosopher 1844-1900
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
American businessman, founder McDonalds 1902-1984
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
American writer
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
