"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
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"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
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"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
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"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
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"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."
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"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more."
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"Wrinkles are engraved smiles."
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"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
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"Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird."
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"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
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"There are no friends; only moments of friendship."
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"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."
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"When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself."
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"I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me."
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"When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness."
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"We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice."
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"Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper."
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"The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice."
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"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."
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"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
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