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"He loves his country best who strives to make it best."	Robert G. Ingersoll
"Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands."	Francis Bacon
"We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?"	Francis Bacon
"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers."	Benjamin Disraeli
"The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract."	Benjamin Disraeli
"All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."	Sydney Smith
"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."	Mae West
"Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you."	Mae West
"I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring."	Dave Barry
"There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."	Dave Barry
"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."	Josh Billings
"The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven."	Josh Billings
"Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts."	George Santayana
"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."	George Santayana
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."	Henry Ward Beecher
"I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more."	Henry Ward Beecher
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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