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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Daily Quote: "There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in." (Rogers, Will - Experts)

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

-- Wilde, Oscar | Sincerity

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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

-- Congreve, William | Sincerity

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

-- Cicero, Marcus T. | Sincerity

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Candor gives wings to strength.

-- Motto | Sincerity

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Sincerity

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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

-- Williams, Tennessee | Sincerity

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I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

-- Thoreau, Henry David | Sincerity

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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

-- Thoreau, Henry David | Sincerity

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It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

-- Schultz, Charles M. | Sincerity

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It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

-- Browning, Robert | Sincerity

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

-- Shaw, George Bernard | Sincerity

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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

-- Johnson, Samuel | Sincerity

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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

-- Confucius | Sincerity

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Sincerity gives wings to power.

-- Unknown, Source | Sincerity

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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

-- Lowell, James Russell | Sincerity

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