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  • Ada Leverson As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
    Loves Shadow (1908) Ch. xxxix
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Clive James As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Alistair Cooke As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Bao Dai As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Anthony Holden As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Buzz Aldrin As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Audrey Hepburn As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Ann Landers At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Anna Held At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Abraham Cahan At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Jean de la Bruyère At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Allen Tate At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Baltasar Gracián At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Clarence Darrow At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Lord George Byron At twenty three the best of life is over and its bitters double.
    Journal entry of 1811 titled: Four or Five Reasons in Favour of a Change
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Elmore Leonard Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bob Beauprez Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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