Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • William Morris Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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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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  • Cass Sunstein Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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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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  • Beah Richards Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Margot Asquith He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Amy Hempel He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
    Rick Moody (2007) 391
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • John Buchan He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Mark Twain He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Victor Hugo He does not weep who does not see.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • James Graham He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
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  • Henry Wotton He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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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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  • Oscar Wilde He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli He has not a single redeeming defect.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Horace He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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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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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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