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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

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I regard you with an indifference bordering on aversion.

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them ...

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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A friend is a present you give yourself.

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Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake;...

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It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle, something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move, to get down off this featherbed of civilisation and to find the globe granite underneath and strewn with cutting flints.

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Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!

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