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And plenty makes us poor.
John Dryden on wealth

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
John Dryden on words

It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have.
Duchess of Windsor on beauty

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell on change

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Jean Anouilh on life

Character is who you are when no one but GOD is looking.
Andy Dukes on character

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
John Foster Dulles on ability

Business? it’s quite simple: it’s other people’s money.
Alexander Dumas on business

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Alexander Dumas on marriage

Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas on success

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre (père) Dumas on doubt

The work of the world is done on hate. All work done well is well done only when persons hate work done shoddily. Justice can exist only when injustice is hated, laws only when lawlessness is hated, and education only when ignorance is hated. Every improvement this world has ever known was brought about because someone hated intolerable conditions.
Jane Dunlop on change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
Elizabeth Clark Dunn on change

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
Alexis Dupuy on marriage

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Will Durant on morals

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan on individuality

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis Anspacher on marriage

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
David Eddings on inspiration

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
David Eddings on learning

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.
Mary Baker Eddy on health