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The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all...
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and...
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a...
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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does,...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him...
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‘I think therefore I am’ is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed,...
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Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
Quote #34816
The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same...
Quote #14131
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about...