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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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