Francis Quarles

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

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Richard Lamm

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

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Van Wyck Brooks

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

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Clare Booth Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy

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La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

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G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.

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James Thorpe

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

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Martha Stewart

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

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