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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Compliments
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Obscurity is the realm of error.
Obscurity
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
Work
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Failure
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Deception
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The idle always have a mind to do something.
Laziness
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Nature
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Risk
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Knowledge
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Motivation
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
Hatred
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
Expectation
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Time and Time Management
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Victory
Bill Veeck

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
Power
Sir Aubrey De Vere

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If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
Commitment
Dick Vermeil

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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Imagination
Jules Verne

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These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
Sin
Kara Vichko

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The first step is the hardest.
Inertia
Marie De Vichy-Chamrond

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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Human Nature
Giambattista Vico

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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
Babies
Queen Victoria

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Opinions
Queen Victoria

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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
Losers and Losing
Queen Victoria

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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
Twentieth Century
Gore Vidal

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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
Punishment
Gore Vidal

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun