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Thomas Paine. Photo: Wikipedia

 Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. 
- Thomas Paine 
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. 
- Joan Baez 
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. 
- Mark Twain 
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. 
- Kin Hubbard 
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. 
- Ernest Hemingway 
In a mad world only the mad are sane. 
- Akira Kurosawa 
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. 
- Margaret Mitchell  
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. 
- Walter Winchell 
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds. 

- A. A. Milne 
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