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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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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

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Brevity
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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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Other Quotes from
Humankind
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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. – Albert Einstein

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Humankind

Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. – The Talmud

Category:
Humankind

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Humankind

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Humankind

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Simon is cool. You know, its different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different. – Ruben Studdard

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cool

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. – Evelyn Waugh

Category:
alone

One may go a long way after one is tired. – French proverb

Category:
Perseverance

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. – Marcel Proust

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Día de los Muertos