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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these...
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The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.
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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction...
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done...
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness...
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I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know,...
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Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing...
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One’s life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have...