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“Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education.”

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Of all the peple you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave nor lose. To the questions…

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We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

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It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried…

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It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a…

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If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to…

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Sometimes, if your own life is to add up, you must subtract yourself from someone else's life. This time comes, I think, whenever you find that the affection or love of someone else can be kept only at the cost of yourself. If you are on the receiving end of much criticism, if the other has nothing but dissatisfaction with…

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

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The valuable friends are those who make you expand, who make you feel more decent and wiser than you suspect yourself to be.

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I saw one of the absolute truths of this world: each person is worrying about himself; no one is worrying about you. He or she is worrying about whether you like him, not whether he likes you. He is worrying about whether he looks prepossessing, not whether you are dressed correctly. He is worrying about whether he appears poised, not…

While it is necessary to eat and therefore it is pleasantest to eat food that looks handsome and tastes good, on the other hand…

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We are all so much more interesting to ourselves than to anyone else because we know how many potentialities are alive in us, and the person who considers them dead issues and insists on seeing us flatly as no more than we are is appreciated as an enemy rather than a friend. It is perfectly human to ferret out the…

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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