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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, philosopher
Letter to Richard Burke (c. 1795)

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok (b. 1930) American lawyer, educator
(Attributed)

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Envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

John Churton Collins (1848-1908) American literary academic
Aphorisms (1904)

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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Characteristics, # 421 (1823)
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgotten.

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British fabulist
The Sandman, Vol. 3, Dream Country, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” [Dream] (#19) (1990)

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