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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

William Ralph Inge

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Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.
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This is old, therefore it is good the other says, This is new, therefore it is better.
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