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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
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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People decline invitations when they are indisposed physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his philosophy of life until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Character is something you forge for yourself temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
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We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.
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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
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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. --
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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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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 truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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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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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Many people know how to work hard many others know how to play well but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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