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  • Samuel Johnson The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Samuel Butler The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Alan Cohen The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • George Villiers The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
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  • Abraham Cowley The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, and there the greatest heroism has been secretly exercised.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Brian Moore The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
    Brian Moore
    British writer and screenwiter (1921 - 1999)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Ben Parr The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Oscar Wilde The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Milan Kundera The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Annie Dillard The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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