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  • Truman Capote A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • George Herbert A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Samuel Butler A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • David Lloyd George A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Oliver Herford A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Ruth Graham A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
    Ruth Graham
    American Christian activist, writer and poet (1920 - 2007)
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  • Robert Doisneau A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
    Robert Doisneau
    French photographer (1912 - 1994)
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  • Billy Collins A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Boy George A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Will Rogers A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Beryl Bainbridge A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Joyce Carey A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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  • Joyce Cary A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Will Rogers A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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