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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. ↗

— George Savile

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A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. ↗

— George Savile

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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way. ↗

— George Savile

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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. ↗

— George Savile

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I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

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