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“The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.”
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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
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“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
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“Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”
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“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
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“I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.”
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“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
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“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
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“The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.”
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“If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.”
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“There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.”
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“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
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“Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.”
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“Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.”
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“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”
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“Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.”
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“India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.”
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“I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.”
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“Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.”
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“However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.”
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“All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.”
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“Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.”
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“The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.”
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“Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.”
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“The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.”
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“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
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“A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.”
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“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother”
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“Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.”
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“When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.”
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