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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Fear drives you and makes you better.
The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.


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