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

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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"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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"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."

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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."

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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."

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

"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."

"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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"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."

"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."

"No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."

"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."

"Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being."