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  • Robertson Davies He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Arthur Miller He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Ben E. King He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Joseph Heller He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Cab Calloway He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ''when!''
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • Oscar Wilde He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Dryden He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Bunyan He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Seneca He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Albert Einstein He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Samuel Johnson He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Voltaire He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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