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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling read more
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends read more
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite read more
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know read more
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What read more
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, read more
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
