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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry alw

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. – Richard Whately

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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. – Richard Whately

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Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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