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“Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.”
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“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.”
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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”
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“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
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“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”
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“Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.”
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“They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.”
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“The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.”
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“What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.”
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“It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.”
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“After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”
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“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.”
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“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”
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“Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.”
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“It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.”
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“We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.”
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“The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.”
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“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”
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“There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.”
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“Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.”
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“I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”
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“He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.”
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“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
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“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
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“Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.”
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“Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.”
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“There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.”
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“We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.”
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“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.”
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“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”
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