"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."

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"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."

Education, Knowledge, Values, Facts

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

Religion, Creation, Devil, Doubt

"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."

Religion, Philosophy, Popular, Superstition

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."

Society, Ancestry, Delusion, Hatred

"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."

Time, Conscience

"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

Faith, Belief, Values, Reality

"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man."

God, Nature, People, Man

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

People, Trouble, Want

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."

"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."

"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man."

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due."

"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

"There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."