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Sydney Smith

"No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior."

Sydney Smith, English Clergyman
Being, End, Man, Will
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist
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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor
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"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."
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"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
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