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Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
                -- Joan Didion, "On Self Respect"

Intolerance is the last defense of the insecure.

Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing --
it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up.
                -- Bernard Cooke

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
                -- Benjamin Disraeli

It does not matter if you fall down as long as you pick up something
from the floor while you get up.

It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've
done and what you're going to do.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is
thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have
drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

It has been said that man is a rational animal.  All my life I have
been searching for evidence which could support this.
                -- Bertrand Russell

It is all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it
now and then.
                -- Richard Armour

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course,
you are an exceptionally good liar.
                -- Jerome K. Jerome