- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newest books are those that never grow old.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
- Downstairs
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
- Gilded
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- Nov 07, 2020
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
- Nightmares
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020