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  • Lord George Byron Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Quentin Crisp Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Frederick W. Faber Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • Blaise Pascal Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Emanuel Swedenborg Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
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  • W. M. Thackeray Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! - what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
    Source: Wit and Wisdom
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Blaise Pascal Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • King George III Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
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  • Plato Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Alexander Pope Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lao-Tzu Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Carl Sagan Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anthea Turner Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Lucille Ball Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Plato Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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