"You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure."
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"As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour."
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"They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates."
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"We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time."
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"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."
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"Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand."
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"Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory."
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"Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast."
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"Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice."
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"I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with."
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"One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream."
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"People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs."
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"The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds."
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"Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good."
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"Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours."
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"We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half."
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"Brooklyn praise is half slander."
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"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try."
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"Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad."
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"A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything."
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