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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chains were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can`t have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? - George Bernard Shaw
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
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You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant. - Benjamin Franklin
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Don`t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly. - Theodore Roosevelt
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell
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Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. - Samuel Johnson
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde
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Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Children are all foreigners. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler
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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. - Confucius
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Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny. - Heraclitus
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Classic: a book people praise but don`t read. - Mark Twain
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It is a golden rule not to judge men by their opinions but rather by what their opinions make of them. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Be as you wish to seem. - Socrates
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. - Plato
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You can never get enough of what you don`t need to make you happy. - Eric Hoffer
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. - Aristotle
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner`s inquest. - Henry Louis Mencken
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Only the educated are free. - Epictetus
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things, which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. - Plutarch
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Responsibility is the price of freedom. - Elbert Hubbard
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It is better to be deceived by one`s friends than to deceive them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn`t been asleep. - Wilson Mizner
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Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume. -
Heinrich Heine