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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
[ Aphorisms and Epigrams ]
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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
[ Common Sense ]
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
[ Death and Dying ]
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
[ Resignation ]
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
[ Books - Reading ]
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
[ People ]
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
[ Youth ]
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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
[ Humor ]
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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
[ Expectation ]
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
[ Obstinacy ]
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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
[ Love ]
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
[ Money ]
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
[ Christians and Christianity ]
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
[ Excellence ]
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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
[ Perfection ]
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
[ Sentiment ]
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
[ Association ]
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
[ Quotations ]
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
[ The future ]
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
[ Beauty ]
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
[ Misfortunes ]
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
[ Freedom ]
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
[ Tolerance ]
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
[ Tradition ]
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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
[ Resignation ]
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
[ Laughter ]
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
[ Consequences ]
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You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
[ Adultery ]
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