Quote by Maya Angelou
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. – Maya Angelou

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Theres a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. – Maya Angelou

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My life has been one great big joke, a dance thats walked a song thats spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. – Maya Angelou

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives mouths. – Bertrand Russell

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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. – Lawrence Durrell

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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. – John Drinkwater

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By indignities men come to dignities. – Francis Bacon

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No man is free who is not a master of himself. – Epictetus

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In jealousy there is more self-love than love. – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

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