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“If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.” (Tom Stoppard)

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.” (Bob Hope)

“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” (Herbert Henry Asquith)

“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” (Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. )

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” (Sir Winston Churchill)

“She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.” (Marita Bonner)

“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.” (Marquis de Vauvenargues)

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” (Edith Wharton)

“Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.” (Robert Anthony)

“I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.” (Tom Lehrer)

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

(Jerome K. Jerome)

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” (Margaret Thatcher)

“Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.” (Jewish Proverb)