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“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
― George Burns

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
― George Burns

“Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.”
― George Burns

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing