"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity."

Charles Dudley Warner, American Journalist

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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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"Give light and people will find the way."

Ella Baker, American Activist

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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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"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."

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"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."

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"How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man."

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"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."

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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."

"Give light and people will find the way."

"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."

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"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."

"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."

"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."

"How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man."

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."

"There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman."