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“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard, ' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'”

Sydney J. Harris · Life

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Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

Knowledge

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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Beauty

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Government

Sydney J. Harris

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Time