Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.
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Rick Riordan
It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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Ellis Peters
A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
More Quotes By Laurence Sterne
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains, --then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other:...
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the...
We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them
