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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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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Letters
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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Other Quotes from
Humankind
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Evolution: that last step was a doozy! – Terri Guillemets, 1988 September, biology journal

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Humankind

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. – Albert Einstein

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Humankind

Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. – Malcolm de Chazal

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Humankind

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Humankind

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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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You can always tell when two people are best friends because they are having more fun than it makes sense for them to be having. – Author unknown

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Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Hope

I dont know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. – Joel Osteen

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Hope