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There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Quote by Dorothy Parker about wisdom, hell, word, truth

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about success

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Quote by Francoise Sagan about literature, talent, things, contentment

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Quote by André Breton about rules, life

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Quote by Emile Zola about dream, dark, humanity, name, happiness, soul

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Quote by Claude Monet about art, magic, love, people

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton about contentment

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Quote by James Abram Garfield about idea, war, world

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Quote by Clive Staples Lewis about courage, virtue

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Quote by John Updike about truth, privacy, woman, man

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Quote by Jorge Amado about truth, eyes, things

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightement at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about education, originality, public

A man is not wealthy, simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead, by the richness of his heart.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about heart, wealth, man