"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author

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"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."

"A college education shows a man how little other people know."

"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."