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Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris (14 September 1917- 8 December 1986) was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and later the Chicago Sun-Times. His column, -Strictly Personal,- was syndicated in many newspapers throughout the United States and Canada

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

– Sydney J. Harris

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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

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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.

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

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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying, It got lost, and say, I lost it.

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