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It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which I is capitalized in many other languages You is capitalized and the i is lower case. --
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. I got it from my good judgment, he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? I got it from my bad judgment.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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