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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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
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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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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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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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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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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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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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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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