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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation…
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.
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Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the…
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There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who…
— James Burnham
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I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.
— Minimaks
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As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in…
— Robert Faurisson
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
— Ted Koppel
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
— Saul Bellow
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Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things…
— Goldie
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can…
— Bruce Sterling
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Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite,…
— Dick Cavett
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a…
— Eric Idle
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