"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

Gain, Politeness

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"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

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"FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain."

Arthur C. Brooks, American Author

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"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

Merton Miller, American Economist

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"I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage."

Joe Theismann, American Athlete

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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain."

George Crabbe, English Poet

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"I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

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"Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint."

Don Henley, American Musician

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"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take."

Advice

"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them."

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"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."

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"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."

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"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."

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"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

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"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

Life

"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return."

Men

"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."

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"Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."

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