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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is t

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? – James Thurber

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The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. – James Thurber

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Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. – James Thurber

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. – Andrew Motion

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. – Douglas Horton

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Jealousy is the fear of comparison. – Max Frisch

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There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. – Fanny Burney

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Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. – Montesquieu

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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. – John Ruskin

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