Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. Great short quote and quotation by: Orison Swett Marden , (1850 – 1924)
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. Great short quote and quotation by: Rose Macauley ,
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX , […]
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