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Wine is bottled poetry.

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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

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No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.

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Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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