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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. – John Adams

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. – John Adams

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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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Looking at yourself in a mirror isnt exactly a study of life. – Lauren Bacall

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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. – Proverb

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Dont wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. – Anais Nin

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My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think theres a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work. – Leslie Bibb

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