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It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.

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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

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The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

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Faultless to a fault.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

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And gain is gain, however small.

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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

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God is the perfect poet.

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