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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their
inability to set a bad example.
                -- La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims"

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created jerks.
                -- H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow"

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's
listening.
                -- Franklin P. Jones

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
                -- Helen Keller

One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,
a rivalry of aim.
                -- Henry Brook Adams

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
                -- Chateaubriand (1768-1848)

One is often kept in the right road by a rut.
                -- Gustave Droz

One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends
can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
                -- Clifton Fadiman