The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. - Author - Isabelle Eberhardt
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. - Author - Charles Dickens
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. - Author - Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. - Author - Publilius Syrus
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? - Author - Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campain, 1999
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Author - Will Rogers, Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Author - Buck Henry
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. - Author - Earl Warren
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. - Author - Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"