"Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

Lewis Carroll, English Author

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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

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"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."

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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."

"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."

"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun."

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