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- Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly…
- In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
- Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
- Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
- No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
- Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
- It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
- Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
- The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
- It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
- In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who…
- The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
- Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction…
- But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the…
- Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with…
- You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
- She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his…
- Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat…
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