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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Be good and you will be lonely.


There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.


The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.


I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.


It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.


I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.


A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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