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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Nicolaus Copernicus

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Truth scarce ever yet carried it by Vote any where at its first appearance: New Opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other Reason, but because they are not already common.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.