Thedifference between

Thedifference between
Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.
  

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Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.
Imaginationis the eye of your soul.
To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.
Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.
Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.