"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.“
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
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"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
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"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
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"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
-Joseph Addison
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it."
-Horace
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
-Adam Smith
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"I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great."
-Shaun White
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
-Cher
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