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• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• We forgive only madmen and children for being frank with u
  others, if they have the audacity to imitate them, will regret it sooner or later. -- E.M. Ciora...
• The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. -- Voltaire
• She meant absolutely nothing to me. Realizing, suddenly, after so many years, that whatever happens I shall never see her again, I nearly collapsed.
  We understand what death is only by suddenly remembering the face of someone who has been a matter of indifference to us....
• In my view, God educates us through our deceptions and mistakes, in order to make us understand at last that we ought to believe only in Him, and not in man.
• We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting laundry.
  -- E. B. White...
• If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had only ten apostles.
• When God created men, She was only joking.
• Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. -- Benjamin Disraeli