"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it."

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"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

Mark Twain, American Author

Opinion, Criticism, Books, Anger, Hate

"The world is governed by opinion."

William Ellery Channing, American Writer

Opinion, World

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Opinion, Prejudice, Truth, Social

"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Opinion, Will

"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

Opinion, Property, Worth, Writer

"As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

Opinion, Pride

"And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio."

Stewart Copeland, American Musician

Opinion,

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."

Les Brown, American Businessman

Opinion, Reality

"I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum."

Boyd Rice, American Artist

Opinion, Giving, Questions, Years

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"Honour sinks where commerce long prevails."

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"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

Time

"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."

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"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."

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"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

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"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

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"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."

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"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."

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"Tenderness is a virtue."

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