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tiny.ag/p6bwfqfr · ★★☆☆ Fair (702 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
tiny.ag/kiehwrll · ★★☆☆ Fair (673 ratings) · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/jvo6jzxe · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/hobsgyde · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/c9ykbift · ★★☆☆ Fair (769 ratings) · submitted 1997
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
tiny.ag/yqgp7fad · ★★☆☆ Fair (2924 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
tiny.ag/frswba1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (470 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (420 ratings) · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/gu6tloek · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/kygnp58l · ★★☆☆ Fair (334 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/vr4hxjva · ★★☆☆ Fair (1237 ratings) · submitted 1997
Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (409 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · ★★☆☆ Fair (2962 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/i0nu42ok · ★★☆☆ Fair (1224 ratings) · submitted 1997
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · ★★☆☆ Fair (521 ratings) · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.