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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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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Friendship
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Confidence
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Other Quotes from
Humankind
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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra, translated by M.A

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Humankind

Men are cruel, but Man is kind. – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916

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Humankind

Evolution is individual — devolution is collective. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Humankind

Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind. – Terri Guillemets

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Humankind

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Politics

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. – Willie Aames

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good

Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic. – Dave Bonta, from The Morning Porch, morningporch.com/2009/04/96792742

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora”

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