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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day,

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. – Voltaire

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Ignorant men dont know what good they hold in their hands until theyve flung it away. – Sophocles

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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, its just complaining. – Joni Mitchell

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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? – Chanakya

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. – Samuel Johnson

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If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. – Gustav Stresemann

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. – Uma Thurman

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. – Cicero

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