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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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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Incalculable
Solemn
Laughter
Blessed
Gift
Cannot
Would
Men

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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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Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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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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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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