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| #8103 | | In the misfortune of our friends we find something that is not displeasing
to us.
-- La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims"
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| #8104 | | In this world some people are going to like me and some are not. So, I may
as well be me. Then I know if someone likes me, they like me.
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| #8105 | | In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde
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| #8106 | | Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
-- Joan Didion, "On Self Respect"
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| #8107 | | Intolerance is the last defense of the insecure.
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| #8108 | | Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing --
it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up.
-- Bernard Cooke
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| #8109 | | It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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| #8110 | | It does not matter if you fall down as long as you pick up something
from the floor while you get up.
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| #8111 | | It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've
done and what you're going to do.
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| #8112 | | It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is
thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have
drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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