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- Arthur Schopenhauer The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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-- Oscar Wilde Enniscrone
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-- Marcus Aurelius Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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-- Ralph Marston Enniscrone Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
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"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Enniscrone Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
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cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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