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/ page 765 of 1205 /He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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