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And that is
called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and
again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you
never get rid of the Dane.
-- Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of
Prose, Verse
The reason why
so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is
thinking more about what he intends to say than others are
saying.
-- Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical
Writer
We seldom find
any person of good sense, except those who share our
opinions.
-- Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical
Writer
If you wish to
appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught
many things which you know already.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian,
Mystic
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