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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money,…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy,…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of…
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My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of…
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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever…
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged…
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Comparing oneself with Galileo or Einstein is certainly good for the ego, provided one refrains from going into too much detail.
— John McCarthy
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