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1. Cynical people are people that know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windemere's Fan"
   
   
2. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. - Oscar Wilde
   
   
3. "People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public." Bryan White
   
   
4. A person is grown up not when they can take care of themselves, but when they can take care of others.
   
   
5. Some people wish to get what they deserve, while others fear the same.
   
   
6. A man's what he thinks about all day long Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
   
7. "Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."Charles Dickens
   
   
8. "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
   
   
9. "There are three types of people in this world--those who make things happen, those those who watch things happen, and those who asked what happened."
   
   
10. "The only difference between insane people and sane people is that sane people are insane within the boundaries of society."
    
    
11. Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov
    
    
12. The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. Ralph Waldo Emerson
    
    
13. We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. James H. Robinson
    
    
14. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost./ When health is lost, something is lost./ When character is lost, all is lost.
    
    
15. There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. Hindu proverb
    
    
16. "It's a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. It shows he isn't a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can't place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality."Boris Pasternak
    
    
17. "Every man is born a Faust, with a longing to grasp and experience and express everything in the world."Boris Pasternak
    
    
18. There is just one way to bring up a child in the way he should go, and that is to travel that way yourself. Abraham Lincoln
    
    
19. It takes all kinds of people to make up the world.
    
    
20. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of regrets.