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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept – Robert Browning	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done. – Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all. – Lavina Goodell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. – Cullen Hightower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. – Edward Verall Lucas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. – Johann Georg von Zimmermann	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. – Pat Paulsen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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