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- Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only…
- Cats are only human, they have their faults.
- The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
- Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any…
- Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
- How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it…
- Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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