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“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
Good Uneducated Book Man
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“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

Finance Agree Sound Everything
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Honest Important Right Thing
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Democracy Voter Argument Against
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“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”
Adequacy Standard What All
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
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It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Great Strides Resolute Purpose
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Man Goal Animal Goal
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Quality Not Act Habit
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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Reflect Season Christmas Rejoice
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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Honesty is a very expensive gift, don’t expect it from cheap people.
Honesty Cheap People Expensive
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The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Stock Market Money Patience
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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Sure is a cheerful color. Guess I’ll have to get used to it.

Sure Cheerful Color Guess
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.

Diversification Ignorance Protection Sense
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Advantage Being Always Discover
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Business World Rearview Mirror
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Love Divorce Married Man
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

Love Strength Weakness
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Rather Silence Wise Tongue
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Thing One Wise Seem
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Easy Foot Calamity Advice
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Wound Pierce Doth Pace
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Time Fear Remain Guardian
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

World Slave Freedom Deserve
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; My greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Always Concern Right Side
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Worth Friend Trying Without
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If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy.
Love Remedy Patience
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A king’s child is a slave elsewhere.

King Child Slave
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Truth is a letter from courage!

Truth Courage Letter
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Love is a despot who spares no one.
Love Who Spare One
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The vultures would not land at the village in which there is a wise old man.

Would Not Which Wise
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He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.

Fool Sheep Run Twice
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Only Way Free Act
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Man Wild Beast World
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Light Blind Truth Object
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Stand Awe Good Close
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The place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Place Book These Knowledge
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If what the transgender movement seeks is acceptance, association with the Kardashian circus is the last thing it needs

Acceptance Gender End
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There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
Love Physical Woman Relationship
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I think that his ability to reach out to people was because of his sincerity in what he was doing. And the truth in which he did it in. He had no ulterior motive. He wasn't trying to be something.

Ability People Truth Motive
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