World Quotes

• "I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise."
  By: Charles De Montesquieu
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• "There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it."
  By: Mary Wortley Montagu
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• "Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
  By: Molière French playwriter (ps. of J. B. Poquelin) (1622-1673)
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• "A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."
  By: Mohammed
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• "The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business."
  By: Margaret Mitchell
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• "Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for."
  By: Margaret Mitchell
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• "There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said."
  By: Joni Mitchell
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• "What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse."
  By: Henry Miller
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• "Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak."
  By: Henry Miller
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• "The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives."
  By: Henry Miller
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• "The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."
  By: Henry Miller
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• "It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."
  By: Henry Miller
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