Quotes with truth-and-a-half

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  • John Greenleaf Whittier How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
    Autobiography of Mark Twain (2013) 302
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Toni Morrison How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
    Paradise (1998)
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Margaret Drabble How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 41
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Augustus William Hare How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Eric Hoffer How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John Milton How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Alfred de Musset How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Juvenal How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Woody Allen How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alexandre Dumas père How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Karl Kraus How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlo Collodi How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bob Marley How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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