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• Quote 3120

  Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  by: Henry James

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• Quote 3102

  I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

  by: Henry James

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• Quote 2956

  Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions

  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 2925

  But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2892

  If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2825

  The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend

  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2802

  The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them

  by: Alphonse Marie Louis Prat de Lamartine

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• Quote 2801

  The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs

  by: Alphonse Marie Louis Prat de Lamartine

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• Quote 2788

  Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work

  by: Karl Kraus

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• Quote 2593

  Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas

  by: Marie Skłodowska Curie

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• Quote 2426

  People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents

  by: Andrew Carnegie

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• Quote 2350

  One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2349

  The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2310

  What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 1982

  Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

  by: Amos Bronson Alcott

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• Quote 1960

  One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

  by: Jane Austen

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• Quote 1934

  There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

  by: Jane Austen

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• Quote 1808

  Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1806

  It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1789

  They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1764

  Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1755

  Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1648

  Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

  by: Henry David Thoreau

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• Quote 1612

  People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves

  by: Johan August Strindberg

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• Quote 1596

  Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have

  by: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer- Churchill

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