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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • George Santayana Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Gloria Steinem Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Booth Tarkington He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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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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  • John Dryden He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Voltaire He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • James Baldwin He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Richard Whately He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
    The Sign of the Four (1890)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Aphra Behn He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ian McEwan He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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