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  • Oscar Wilde He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli He has not a single redeeming defect.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Horace He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Samuel Butler He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Aneurin Bevan He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Henry Fielding He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Epictetus He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Epictetus He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • David Hume He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Paine He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • William Shakespeare He is not great who is not greatly good.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buddha He is not the same, nor is he another.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Douglas Jerrold He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Charles Dickens He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • William Ellery Channing He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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