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""Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."" »Author Unknown
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"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer.
"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."" »Author Unknown
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"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas." »Aldous Huxley
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"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas." »Aldous Huxley
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"malice drinks one half of its own poison." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." »Nick Diamos
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"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent." »Aldous Huxley
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"malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." »Anonymous
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"Had malice not become a trusted friend to humankind, I should have applauded all technical endeavours." »Lot Chakonza
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." »Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
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"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality." »Samuel Johnson
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"In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed." »Leo C. Rosten
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"Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may." »Jack Holland
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