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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,… — George Sand
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. — Jean de La Fontaine
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall… — Samuel Johnson
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams
Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. — Albert Einstein
However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a… — Martin Luther
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put… — James Boswell
The eye is easily frightened. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less… — Charles Dudley Warner
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness. — Winston Churchill
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what… — Jacques Barzun
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley
I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily. — Sigmund Freud
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in… — Janet Morris

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