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Thomas Hood

"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."

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"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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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."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

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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."

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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?"

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"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."
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"A moment's thinking is an hour in words."
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"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!"
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"Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime."
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"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."
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"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence."
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"A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled."
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"The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago."
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"Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther."
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