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Sydney J. Harris
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Gourmet: usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
Food Credit Littles
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.
Wife Chance Telling The Truth
The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
Love Hate Differences
Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. it is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. it was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.
Spiritual Believe Men
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
Appreciation Applause Interruptions
People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and i wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. a person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
Party People Wish
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes new york. it is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. more than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.
New York Ego Lust
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Knowledge Brain
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
Bed Facts Embarrassing
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
Forgiveness Sacrifice Forgiving
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Summer Winter Keeping Promises
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
Order Law Liberty
  • Born: September 14, 1917
  • Died: December 8, 1986
  • Occupation: Journalist
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