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#1

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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#2

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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#3

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: friends, friendship

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#4

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: maxims, moral, philosophy, reflections

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#5

“78.—The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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#6

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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#7

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

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#8

“Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

tags: oscar-wilde, travel

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#9

“Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions, Ou Sentences Et Maximes Morale (Éd.1665) (Litterature)

tags: judgement, memory

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#10

“93.—Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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#11

“103.—Those who know their minds do not necessarily know their hearts.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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#12

“It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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#13

“When not prompted by vanity, we say little.”
― La Rochefoucauld

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#14

“142.—As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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#15

“refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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#16

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#17

“It is easy to despise what you cannot get”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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#18

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

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#19

“No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward”
― aesop

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#20

“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most”
― aesop

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#21

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
― Aesop

tags: shadows, substance

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#22

“Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave”
― aesop

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#23

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

tags: life-lessons

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#24

“Adversity tests the sincerity of friends”
― aesop

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#25

“The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.”
― Aesop

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#26

“It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it”
― aesop

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#27

“Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature”
― aesop

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#28

“Facts speak plainer than words”
― aesop

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#29

“19.—We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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#30

“22.—Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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