"Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life."
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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."
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"Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there."
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"The goal of evolution is self - conquest"
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"Grammar is the grave of letters."
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"History: a collection of epitaphs."
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"No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business."
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"All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite."
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"A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it."
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"The path of civilization is paved with tin cans."
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"Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others"
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"Allow motion to equal emotion."
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"Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?"
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"Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman."
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"Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves."
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"Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark."
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"An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment."
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"There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought."
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"The man who has no problems is out of the game."
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"Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work."
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