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  • Charles Lamb How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Joseph Addison How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
    Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
    That we can die but once to serve our country!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Ogden Nash How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Douglas Adams Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Jane Austen I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Abraham Davenport I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
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  • Winston Churchill I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.
    Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Robert Frost I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Confucius I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Ovid I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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