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The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Bores and Boredom
Lady Nancy Astor

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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
Men and Women
Lady Nancy Astor

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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Freedom
Kemal Ataturk

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Work
Brooks Atkinson

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Justice
Margaret Atwood

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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Opera
W. H. Auden

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Books - Reading
W. H. Auden

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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
Service
W. H. Auden

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Self-love
Red Auerbach

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Charity
St. Augustine

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Punishment
St. Augustine

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Sin
St. Augustine

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Death and Dying
Marcus Aurelius

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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Cycles
Marcus Aurelius

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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Good and Evil
Marcus Aurelius

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Men exist for the sake of one another.
Cooperation
Marcus Aurelius

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Endurance
Marcus Aurelius

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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Environmentalism
Marcus Aurelius

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Forgiveness
Decimus Magnus Ausonius

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Income
Jane Austen

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Neighbors
Jane Austen

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Cities and City Life
Jane Austen

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
Money
Alan Ayckbourn

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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
Grammar
Isaac Babel

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