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Bruce Willis Actor, Producer
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"I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased."

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares."

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"And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite."

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Herman Cain Businessman, Politician
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"Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!"

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