"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."

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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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"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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"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

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"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

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"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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"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."

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"Kiss till the cow comes home."

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"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

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"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

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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."

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"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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"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."

"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees."

"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."

"Kiss till the cow comes home."

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."

"But what is past my help is past my care."

"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."