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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

~ Tom Stoppard

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Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

~ Tom Stoppard

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

~ Tom Stoppard

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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

~ Tom Stoppard

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A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

~ John Ciardi

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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

~ John Ciardi

 

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The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn’t deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

~ John Ciardi

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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

~ John Ciardi

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There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

~ John Ciardi

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Accursed be he that first invented war.

~ Christopher Marlowe