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Norman Douglas has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
• The secret of happiness is curiosity
• It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
• To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.
• Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.
• Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it…
• He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is…
• Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous.…
• One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
• Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
• They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

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