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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.
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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All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
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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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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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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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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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