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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's…
— Margaret Atwood
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
— Daniel Berrigan
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.…
— Sun Tzu
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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an…
— Sun Tzu
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
— Arthur Cayley
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
— Horace
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