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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. ↗

— Samuel Adams

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There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. ↗

— Scott Adams

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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. ↗

— Scott Adams

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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. ↗

— Kim Alexis

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I would rather clean than beg. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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