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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – Horace Walpole

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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. – Horace Walpole

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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. – Horace Walpole

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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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I see it all perfectly: there are two possibilities, one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret both. – Søren Kierkegaard

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Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse. – Bill Press

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It is people who make me seasick—not the sea. But I am afraid that science has yet to find a solution for this ailment. – Albert Einstein, 1930

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. – Matt Biondi

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