"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."

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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

George Eliot, British Author

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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

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