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Quote by Robert Burns
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the power

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. – Robert Burns

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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. – Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

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If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. – Alfred Fripp

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A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

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Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. – From the television show My So-Called Life

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We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, were very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result. – Keith Emerson

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. – Henry Ward Beecher

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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. – Michel de Montaigne

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