"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
-Ben Elton
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"I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.“
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"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
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"I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it."
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"How sweet it is!"
-Jackie Gleason
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
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