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E. B. White

"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."

E. B. White, American Writer
People, Deep, Today
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"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."

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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
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer
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"You can stroke people with words."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor
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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer
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