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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

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Love prefers twilight to daylight.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

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I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

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though it flickers or shrinks to a blue bead on the wick,

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Meanwhile the angel, dressed for laughs as a plasterer,...

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old Death, dusty gardener, are you alive yet, do I live on yet, in your gray considering eye?

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Mister death who signs papers then eats telegraphs simply: Shoot them then eats

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there, where you live, live: start over, everyman, with the algae of your dreams.

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The ache of marriage: thigh and tongue, beloved, are heavy with it....

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