“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
Tennessee Williams, quoted in The Boston Globe
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces.”
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“When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.”
Critic John Ruskin, quoted in The Buffalo News
“One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
Henry Ward Beecher, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.”
Edmund Burke, quoted in The Jerusalem Post
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.”
Mark Twain, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”
Author James Oppenheim, quoted in Beliefnet.com
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