Sidney J. Harris

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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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

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The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.

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