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Wells Quotes by Alain de Botton
- In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work…
- Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of…
- Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
- Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
- One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
- The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
- In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because…
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