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Quote by Robert Menzies
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest ene

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. – Robert Menzies

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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. – Robert Menzies

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. – John Ruskin

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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. – Robert Anton Wilson

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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance. – Patti Stanger

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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. – Robertson Davies

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Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. Its like opening Pandoras box. – Jennifer Aniston

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