Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Anita Brookner Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anita Loos On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Oscar Wilde On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertolt Brecht On golden chairs
    Sitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chanted
    To those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tears
    And for comforting all those whom you had wounded.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Song of the cut-price poets [Lied der preiswerten
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Levitt Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • John Wesley Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Will Rogers One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Orwell One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anatole Rapoport One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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  • Robert Frost One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Garrison Keillor One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Jane Austen One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Jonathan Swift One enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
    Journal to Stella (30 June 1711)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Plautus One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • George Herbert One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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