"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

Whately, Richard on Argument
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"Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening."

Tyger, Frank on Pride
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"If women were humbler, men would be more honest."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on Men and Women
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"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."

Turner, Lana on Men and Women
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"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."

Santayana, George on Men and Women
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"Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him."

Antrim, Minna on Men and Women
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"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."

Antrim, Minna on Men and Women
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on Life and Living
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on Life and Living
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on Life and Living
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"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."

Baughan, Bill on Life and Living
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"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."

Anderson, Greg on Happiness
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Addison, Joseph on Happiness
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on Passion
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"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

Browne, Sir Thomas on Passion
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"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."

Brown, Rita Mae on Passion
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"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Passion
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"Man know much more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on Understanding
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"To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude."

Addison, Joseph on Solitude
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"This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude."

Bruyere, Jean De La on Solitude
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on Solitude
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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Passion
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"Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle."

Enright, D. J. on Heroes and Heroism
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"Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile."

Wilde, Oscar on Youth
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"American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams."

Iyer, Pico on America
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"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans."

Askew, Ruben on America
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"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit."

Proust, Marcel on Lies and Lying
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"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."

Waitley, Denis on Happiness
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"Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine."

Gallagher, Robert C. on Change
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"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin."

West, Mae on Finance
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"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Solitude
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