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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Leo Aikman

“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether”

- Thomas Fuller

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

- Golda Meir

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

- Stephen Bayley

“It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.”

- Agnes Repplier

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”

- Booker T. Washington

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

- Alexander The Great

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

- Albert Einstein