Samuel Smiles Quotes

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

Ann Coulter

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I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

Michael Connelly

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No one shrieked, 'We want Bung Hatta.' I did not need him. Just as also I did not need Sjahrir, who refused to show himself at the time of the reading of the Proclamation. Indeed, I could do it myself, and indeed, I did it alone.

Sukarno

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I really enjoy 'Mad Men,' but I'm hugely into 'Homeland.' The characters are very well drawn and complex.

Ruth Bradley

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I think I have something unique that I'd like to share.

Ruby Dee

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Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

Mireille Guiliano

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I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

Don Imus

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We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.

Chris Stapleton

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To me, Punisher is pretty black and white. He's very simple, and at the same time, he's very complex. I don't know why I think I understand the guy, but I feel I do.

CM Punk

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My husband is from Venezuela and he cries when he needs to cry!

Paz Vega

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I've found throughout life that people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Ryan Frazier

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