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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Mel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Adam Clarke Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Robert Burns Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Les Brown Forgive those who have hurt you.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Groucho Marx Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Victor Hugo Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Saadi Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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