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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence


George Santayana

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ALEXIS CARREL The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
GEORGE HERBERT The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
CHARLES KURALT Wit is more often a shield than a lance.
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ANUJ SOMANY Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA