"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."

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"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

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"He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most."

Love

"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large."

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"So never give in, continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river."

Faith

"Unless we remember we cannot understand."

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"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."

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"We may say that History develops, Art stands still."

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"Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour."

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"The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book."

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"While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea."

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"I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants."

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