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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exqui

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. – George Bernard Shaw

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Humankind

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Humankind

Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

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Humankind

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. – Sarah Bernhardt

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Wise Words

Dogs are our link to paradise. They dont know evil or jealousy or discontent. – Milan Kundera

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The thing is, I dont believe in most of whats done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy thats put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. – William Hurt

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The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. – Nick Clegg

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