Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • William Shakespeare Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Fuller Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Helen Keller Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Denis Diderot Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • William Shakespeare Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Fuller Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Shakespeare He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Donald Trump I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.
    Trump: The Art of the Deal (2009) inl.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Andre Breton I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • John F. Kennedy I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Alain de Botton I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Thomas Fuller If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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