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Quote by Nan Fairbrother
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. - Nan Fairbrother

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. – Nan Fairbrother

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Man — a being in search of meaning. – Plato

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Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. – Ashley Montagu

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The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. – T.H. Huxley, “Evolution and Ethics,” 1893

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon

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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. – Margaret Fuller

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At home in Ireland, theres a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. – Seamus Heaney

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