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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

Being

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

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"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."

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"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."

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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his."

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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

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