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—Oscar Wilde
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
—Oscar Wilde
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Class is real. It can’t be faked.
—Ann Landers
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
—A. A. Milne
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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
—Edward R. Murrow
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Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
—Phaedrus
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There ain’t a man livin’ who hasn’t talked to his dog.
—Hank Williams
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
—James Baldwin
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
—Plutarch
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
—P. J. O’Rourke
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
—Dolly Parton
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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
—Robert Benchley
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To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
—Martin Buber
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I don’t apologize to people with an agenda.
—Kinky Friedman
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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
—Rudyard Kipling
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
—Aeschylus
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
—John Galsworthy
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Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.
—Harry Truman
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
—Plutarch
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
—Aristophanes
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
—Victor Hugo
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
—Albert Camus
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
—Robert E. Howard