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| #8501 | | The great secret in life ... [is] not to open your letters for a fortnight.
At the expiration of that period you will find that nearly all of them have
answered themselves.
-- Arthur Binstead
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| #8502 | | The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
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| #8503 | | The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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| #8504 | | The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put a lot of
relatives on the train for home.
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| #8505 | | The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
-- Tacitus (c.55 - c.117)
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| #8506 | | ... the heat come 'round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day.
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| #8507 | | The help people need most urgently is help in admitting that they need help.
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| #8508 | | The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet,
challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that
keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents
itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb
of innocence. To yield to its blandishments is so easy. The wrong, it seems,
is venial... Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of
adventurous youth.
-- Benjamin Cardozo
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| #8509 | | The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.
-- P. Medawar
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| #8510 | | The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them.
-- David Gerrold
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