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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Good

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
  • 2. The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age and an age is heroic because of what it is not because of what it does.
  • 3. The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. As a kid I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
  • 2. Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis – the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
  • 3. I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
  • 2. Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
  • 3. People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

5 Architecture

  • 1. No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and above all timesaving to make them identical.
  • 2. Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.
  • 3. Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
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