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  • Benjamin Franklin Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Martin Luther Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
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  • John Milton Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
    Paradise lost (1667)
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • George Meredith Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Napoleon Who saves his country violates no law.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Abraham Cowley Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Matthew Prior Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Bodhidharma Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Boethius Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Robert Browning Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Ann Coulter Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Eliza Cook Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • James A. Froude Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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