"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

Marquis De Vauvenargues, French Philosopher

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

People, Excellence

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

People, Country

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults, Merit

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

People, Quarrel

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin, English Writer

People, Man, World

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

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"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

Art

"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

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"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."

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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

"To possess taste, one must have some soul."

"All grand thoughts come from the heart."

"Great thoughts always come from the heart."

"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."