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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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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London
England
Sydney Harris
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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good. This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.
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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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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
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Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
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If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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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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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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