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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The obscurest epoch is to-day.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
[ Sin ]
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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There is but one art, to omit.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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