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More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
