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10 quotes for today

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. 
- Oscar Wilde 

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci 



Man is what he believes. 
- Anton Chekhov 

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. 
- William Penn 

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. 
- G. K. Chesterton 

A room without books is like a body without a soul. 
- Cicero 

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. 
- Groucho Marx 

Woe be to him that reads but one book. 
- George Herbert 

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. 
- Evan Esar

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. 
- Otto von Bismarck 


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